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JF Healthcare’s AI Technology Is First to Beat Radiologists in Stanford Chest X-ray Diagnostic Competition

CONCORD, Mass., Aug. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — JF Healthcare, a medical diagnostic start-up based in Nanchang, China, is the first organization in the world to beat Stanford University radiologists in a competition designed by the Stanford Machine Learning group to compare the capability of artificial intelligence (AI) to human experts in interpreting chest x-rays. The AI team from JF Healthcare recently achieved an average AUC score (a measure of diagnostic accuracy) of 0.926 and is currently ranked No. 1 in the world on Stanford’s CheXpert leaderboard. Significantly, the JF team outperforms all three Stanford radiologists on the test set, demonstrating the...

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Background In the United States, about half of all radiographic exams are X-rays, mostly of the chest. In other developing countries around the world, chest X-rays are even more widely used, for example, to detect lung cancer early, stop the spread of tuberculosis, and support the responsible use of antibiotics for pneumonia. Chest X-ray is the “bread and butter” for modern medical imaging to some extent. Because of the critical role of chest X-ray, on January 2019 the Machine Learning (ML) group at Stanford University lead by Dr. Andrew Ng released a large-scale chest X-ray dataset CheXpert for research, which...

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CHINESE AI START-UP BEATS STANFORD TEAM IN X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC COMPETITION

The company’s goal is to make AI-driven x-ray analysis available across significant swathes of China’s rural areas. Jeff Rowe | Aug 23, 2019 11:52 am The Stanford Machine Learning group, based at Stanford University, recently launched a competition designed to compare AI’s capability in interpreting chest x-rays to the capabilities of human experts from Stanford.  And the humans lost. The winner was an AI team from JF Healthcare, a medical diagnostic start-up based in Nanchang, China, which outperformed all three Stanford radiologists involved with an average AUC score (a measure of diagnostic accuracy) of 0.926. According to a JF statement, the test demonstrates...

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The Managers of GreyBird Ventures Partner with JF Healthcare in China

China, the world’s second largest and fastest growing market for healthcare products and services, cannot be ignored in the plans for any medical technology enterprise. It is a country where doing business as a foreign entity can be both highly complex and fraught with potential pitfalls. Therefore, the managers of GreyBird Ventures have decided to partner with a trusted enterprise, JiuFeng Healthcare (JF), to provide advice, assistance, and access to the Chinese market both for our firm and our portfolio companies. The GreyBird Managers have enjoyed a decades-long trustful relationship with the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of JF, Frank Wu...

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