{"id":10395,"date":"2025-09-24T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:46:13","slug":"teaching-machines-to-fight-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/24\/teaching-machines-to-fight-infectious-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Machines to Fight Infectious Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Viral-Infections\/Article\/08-25\/AI-Machine-Learning-Infectious-Diseases\/78185\">ISDE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/artificial-intelligence\/9404\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Artificial intelligence, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artificial intelligence<\/a>&nbsp;may be the hot, new, sexy term, but the subset of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/AI\/14654\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"AI, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI<\/a>&nbsp;that has the most potential for improving the discovery of new antimicrobials, outbreak surveillance, diagnostic testing and other facets of managing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/infectious-diseases\/17779\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"infectious diseases, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infectious diseases<\/a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/machine-learning\/14213\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"machine learning, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">machine learning<\/a>\u2014teaching computers how to learn from and interpret large data sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI is \u201cthe ability of computers to perform tasks that normally require humans,\u201d explained&nbsp;<strong>Jonathan Stokes<\/strong>, PhD, a microbiologist and an assistant professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With machine learning (ML), the computer system \u201clearns\u201d from experience so it can undertake tasks without explicit instructions. Dr. Stokes, who is using ML to discover potential new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/antibiotics\/585\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"antibiotics, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">antibiotics<\/a>, said these software programs can improve surveillance and spot outbreaks earlier, help a microbiologist identify an unusual parasite, or help in the fight against&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/Tag\/Antimicrobial-resistance\/4159\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"antimicrobial resistance, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">antimicrobial resistance<\/a>&nbsp;(AMR).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISDE Artificial intelligence&nbsp;may be the hot, new, sexy term, but the subset of&nbsp;AI&nbsp;that has the most potential for improving the discovery of new antimicrobials, outbreak surveillance, diagnostic testing and other facets of managing&nbsp;infectious diseases&nbsp;is&nbsp;machine learning\u2014teaching computers how to learn from and interpret large data sets. AI is \u201cthe ability of computers to perform tasks that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}