Tagged: diagnostics

How testing for Covid-19 works - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 18, 2020 •

• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• diagnostics,
• testing

With confirmed cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand up to 12, many influential people are writing open letters and opinion pieces and doing press conferences asking why we aren’t pulling out all the stops and testing thousands of people a day like they are in South Korea. The thing is, testing for Covid-19 isn’t like a pregnancy test. You don’t … Read More

Cheesecake Files: Machine learning heart attacks - Kidney Punch

John Pickering • Aug 21, 2019 •

• algorithm,
• artificial intelligence,
• diagnostics,
• Heart Attack,
• machine learning,
• Myocardial Infarction

“Machine learning” rates very high on the buzz-word scale, right up there with “nano-technology” and “blockchain”. Like most buzz it is more noise than substance. However, every now and again it looks like there might be something in the noise that bites. This episode of the Cheesecake Files1 is about testing an algorithm (another buzz word) developed through a … Read More