Chris Lovejoy

I'm a Cambridge medicine grad, working as a junior doctor in London and striving to improve healthcare through technology and education.

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Machine Learning

Predicting Acute Kidney Injury with AI (Research Paper Summary)

A clinically applicable approach to continuous prediction of future acute kidney injury - Tomašev et al., Nature, July 2019Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1390-1One-sentence summaryIn this paper, a research group from

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Research Summaries

Predicting Hospital Appointment Attendance using Artificial Intelligence (Research Paper Summary)

Predicting scheduled hospital attendance with artificial intelligence - Amy Nelson et al., April 2019Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-019-0103-3#MOESM1One-sentence summaryIn this paper, a research group from UCL trained an AdaBoost

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I'm starting a weekly email newsletter

I've decided to start a weekly email newsletter.Its exact content and theme are not yet tightly defined, but it will broadly be a collection of my experiences as a doctor working in

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Machine Learning

Predicting Hospital No-Shows using Neural Networks [coding exercise]

Approximately 20% of medical appointments that are booked are not attended in the UK. This costs an estimated £1 billion annually. If we were able to predict who might not show up, we

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Machine Learning

Classifying breast cancer with machine learning [Introductory coding exercise]

This exercise takes you through the process of training a neural network to classify pathology slides from lymph node samples as malignant vs benign, based on the features of the images.The exercise

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Machine Learning

How might you use machine learning in a medical career?

If you're a healthcare professional with an interest in machine learning (ML), but unsure how can combine it with your career, then we hope you'll find this post useful.The most common ways

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Machine Learning

How to find local medical AI projects to get involved with

The last several years have seen a huge surge in amount of funding going into, and research papers coming out of, groups working on artificial intelligence in healthcare. Many new research groups are

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Perspectives and Reflections

On the importance of technical and job-specific skills

For true happiness in work or life, we need to feel that we are contributing towards a worthy goal; that our work matters. From this perspective, the challenges become part of the process,

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Machine Learning

Understanding Machine Learning in Medicine: An Introductory Webinar

We live-streamed a one-hour webinar, covering some of the fundamental principles of machine learning and its application in healthcare. Here's a recording of it.It is aimed at all medical professionals (doctors, medical

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Research Summaries

Distinguishing cancerous from non-cancerous skin lesions (Research Paper Summary)

Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks - Esteva et al., Nature, Jan 2017Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21056NOTE: This is one of the earliest, and most cited, articles

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Research Summaries

Key research papers in medical AI - read these first

We will continue to update this post as new articles are published.Last updated: 14th October 2019This is an extremely active research field, with new papers published regularly. Here we mention some of

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Research Summaries

Recommending doses of IV fluids and vasopressor in sepsis (Research Paper Summary)

The Artificial Intelligence Clinician learns optimal treatment strategies for sepsis in intensive care. - Komorowski et al., Nature Medicine, Nov 2018Original article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349085 One-sentence summaryIn this

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Research Summaries

Automatically diagnosing retinal disease from eye scans (Research Paper Summary)

Clinically applicable deep learning for diagnosis and referral in retinal disease - De Fauw et al., Nature Medicine, Aug 2018Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0107-6One-sentence summaryIn this paper, a research group

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Machine Learning

Why should doctors understand machine learning?

We are seeing increasing use of, and discussion about, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across all sectors; healthcare included. Greater volumes of data, improved computing power and break-throughs in machine learning

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Machine Learning

UK healthcare AI companies to be aware of

Last updated: 11th October 2019It’s useful to be aware of companies working in the healthcare AI space, whether it’s to understand the current state-of-affairs, to look for internships, future places to

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Machine Learning

Resources for building the foundational understanding of machine learning

To understand machine learning in medicine, it goes without saying that you need to understand machine learning. For those from a healthcare background, this will be the most challenging part.So… where to

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Machine Learning

Why machine learning? Why medicine? Why the hype?

What is machine learning and artificial intelligence?Machine learning (or ‘ML’) is a key area of artificial intelligence (AI). AI can be defined broadly as when a computer performs a task usually requiring

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Machine Learning

Great resources to understand and keep up-to-date with medical artificial intelligence

Thankfully, in our internet era, a huge amount of valuable educational content is freely available. Many top researchers actively disseminate their insights through blogs, mailing lists and tweets, while many of the up-and-coming

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Perspectives and Reflections

The benefits of expressing ideas in multiple forms (E.g. Word vs PowerPoint)

I read an article a few months ago about how Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoints from meetings at Amazon. Instead, people write a “narratively…

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Medicine

The benefits of reflection and role models in learning medicine

An interview with Dr Paquita De ZuluetaDr Paquita De Zulueta is a GP from London who has volunteered for Doctors of the World, lectured at Imperial College London and completed a Masters in

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Medicine

Learning from Others in Medicine

During your medical degree, as you cycle through different rotations, you will meet some inspirational doctors. They may teach you things that stick with you for life. There are many things you can

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Productivity

Memorisation Techniques

by James HartleyDespite one’s best efforts to learn everything for understanding, there can be times where you are presented with a list of names (the branches of the external carotid artery, for

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Medicine

Is Medicine Right For Me?

Elements of medicine are fantastic but others can be upsetting or frustrating. At any point during your medical career, you may ask whether medicine is really the right career for you. You would

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Medicine

Model Answer Examples for Medical Exam Vivas

To prepare for medical final OSCEs, I prepared answers based on the most likely examination findings and the most common questions asked. For each, I thought of a logical structure for an answer

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Medicine

Tips for using the Pomodoro Method effectively

For an explanation of the Pomodoro Method, watch this video. Here are some points that I found maximised the benefit I got from it:Having a fixed timer which does it for you

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