In the news | New York Times
Coronavirus Can Set Off a ‘Cytokine Storm.’ These Drugs May Calm It
At least a dozen treatments are being evaluated for virus patients whose immune systems go on the attack. Many coronavirus patients seem to get better at first, then rapidly decline and are overtaken by an overwhelming immune response that causes…
In the news | Pioneer
Supporting clinicians diagnose and assess the severity of Covid-19 using Artificial Intelligence and Chest X-rays
To use artificial intelligence to support frontline clinicians interpreting chest radiographs (CXR) as a way to diagnose Covid-19 and predict the likely outcomes for patients. Although Covid-19 can be diagnosed using throat and nose swabs, these remain limited in supply…
By Xu Tan , Senior Researcher Neural network based text to speech (TTS) has made rapid progress in recent years. Previous neural TTS models (e.g., Tacotron 2) first generate mel-spectrograms autoregressively from text and then synthesize speech from the generated mel-spectrograms using a…
Helping users build – and maintain – a wall between personal and business communications is a key job that technology can do to help users once they create a business identity. We plan to continue delving into the needs of…
Alexandria in Microsoft Viva Topics: from big data to big knowledge
| Sanil Rajput , John Winn, Naomi Moneypenny, Yordan Zaykov, and CJ Tan
Project Alexandria is a research project within Microsoft Research Cambridge dedicated to discovering entities, or topics of information, and their associated properties from unstructured documents. This research lab has studied knowledge mining research for over a decade, using the probabilistic…
In the news | EurekAlert
First village-level mapping of childhood undernutrition in India reveals local disparities
The risk of childhood undernutrition varies widely among villages in India, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with researchers at Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard's Center for Population and Development…
In the news | Microsoft in Business Blogs
Improving the Rare Disease diagnosis journey with Azure Health Bot
During the pandemic, we have seen dramatic shifts in technology usage: rapid acceleration of at-home shopping, a transition from in-person to online learning, and much more. In healthcare, telehealth visits have jumped more than 150 percent. This increase of visits…
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