AIR in the News

Developing the first anatomy-aware GenAI model for lung abnormalities
Kayhan Batmanghelich, with collaborators, published a paper that uses anatomy-aware generative AI and explainable AI methods to improve synthesizing 3D images with specific abnormalities (Institute News, Aug 6, 2024)

How Generative AI can be used to diagnose different forms of dementia
New Generative AI Model can diagnose 10 distinct types of dementia (Institute News, July 9, 2024)

Mark Crovella Awarded Project from First-of-its-kind NSF Backed Program to Study Large Language Models
Crovella‘s new project studyies potential biases of AI and was one of 35 projects announced as a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project (The Brink, June 20, 2024).

Can an AI Model Learn the Changing Appearance of an Ear as a Baby Grows?
Betke and her team explore this question and win an IEEE IJCB award for their work (Institute News, Nov 12, 2023)

Comparing How Media Around the World Frames Coronavirus News
BU researchers are using machine learning to analyze evolving news trends in countries hard-hit by the pandemic (The Brink, Jun 25, 2020)

Researching COVID-19 in the Media
A team of researchers from the Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Media (AIEM) is studying how media outlets from different countries are covering the COVID-19 pandemic (Institute News, June 30, 2020)

Can Artificially Intelligent Robots Revolutionize Recycling?
Researchers at BU are designing a robot to make sorting decisions in recycling facilities (The Brink, Nov 14, 2019)

What If You Could Manage Information Overload?
Groundbreaking collaboration among BU schools and researchers leads to $1 million NSF grant to address media overload (The Brink, Nov 27, 2018)

Making Artificial Intelligence Intelligible

As artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly important role in the lives of humans, its learning processes are becoming increasingly obscure. Computer scientist Kate Saenko says that’s a problem (The Brink, Nov 1, 2018)