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brandonb
9,345karma·1,335submissions·January 17, 2011
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Data for good.
Co-Founder at Empirical Health (https://empirical.health). Don't die of heart disease.
Before: Co-Founder @ Cardiogram (ML for heart health)
CTO at Sift Science (YC S11, machine learning to fight fraud)
Data Science @ UCSF Cardiology
HealthCare.gov rescue team
Google (Android speech recognition, search ads ML)
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(OP here) We spend a lot of time thinking about how to make AI succeed in medicine. Given that so many efforts, including MYCIN, have been tried and failed before, one of the key questions to answer i…
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Elad started his career with a PhD in cancer biology prior to starting the mobile team at Google, so I don't think "academic imperialism" is an accurate descriptor. I think you'll …
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(I worked on the healthcare.gov rescue team and now run a healthcare startup running a clinical study with UCSF Cardiology.) I think what's needed is likely more than outreach: there are two big …
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I know the feeling. :) Thanks for the comment and the earlier warning.
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Thanks for the shout-out! We posted a few example normal and abnormal heart rhythms from Apple Watch here:
https://blog.cardiogr.am/what-do-normal-and-abnormal-heart-r... Joe: this is…
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Very cool. As you're thinking about unsupervised or semi-supervised deep learning, consider medical data sets as a potential domain. ImageNet has 1,034,908 labeled images. In a hospital setting, …
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Thank you! That is helpful feedback.
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That's part of what we're trying to quantify with the mRhythm Study--both the accuracy of heart rate sensors on average, but more importantly, how to predict in which situations and for whic…
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Any circuit through the heart is enough for (at least a single-lead) ECG. For example, the AliveCor is a hand-held mobile phone case—when your left hand and right hand are both touching it, you can ge…
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OP here. Many of you have helped out with the mRhythm Study we launched a couple of months ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardiogram/id1000017994?ls=1... https:…
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This is super cool. Someone I know is working on a platform to help startups with FDA compliance (specifically the quality systems requirements), who I think would be complementary to this effort. Min…
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If any of you are a hacker trying to learn enterprise sales, a few years ago I wrote a few lessons learned at my first startup here: http://brandonb.cc/enterprise-sales-tips-for-hacker…
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Check out the CONCORD study, which compared cancer survival rates across 18 countries. The US had the highest overall survival rate (73.8%). Countries with government-run medical care, like UK and Den…
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Although this is an interesting result, beware, n=25 for the whole study, which means there were only eight people per group. We did a data analysis on several thousand Apple Watch users, looking at w…
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Clay is one of the best Product Managers I've ever worked with. Diligent, kind, keen product insight, and with technical depth comparable to many of the best software engineers--this article does…
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I worked on Android in 2008 and now work on applying Apple Watch to heart health ( https://cardiogr.am or http://on.wsj.com/1qCfnjR for details). People forget how long it …