Pittsburgh-based Abridge, a healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) startup, recently partnered with Mila, a University of Montreal AI research institute, to expand Abridge’s machine-learning capabilities.
“Our mission at Abridge is to help people understand and follow through on their health — much of which is powered by machine learning,” Sandeep Konam, Abridge co-founder and CTO, said. “From our earliest days, our goal has been to advance medical conversation AI and improve healthcare delivery experiences for people and their doctors. Our partnership with Mila gives us the opportunity to expand our research and continue to engage with leading innovators. The progress we make together will benefit many more people than either of us might reach on our own.”
Abridge annotated a dataset containing more than 10,000 hours of transcribed medical conversations from patients to summarize the conversations and make them easier to understand. These conversations include instructions, medications, and follow-ups.
The company used the dataset to build domain adaptation modules that can correct transcription errors, language generation models that can create actionable summaries, and classifiers that can flag key takeaways.
Mila’s approximately 700 researchers specialize in deep learning. It has made contributions to machine translation, object recognition, generative models, and language modeling.