New article published online today in Journal of Clinical Microbiology - Artificial intelligence, A New Tool for Interpretation of Bacterial Gram Stains

."Automated Interpretation of Blood Culture Gram Stains using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network" was published online today in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.  Congratulations to co-first authors: postdoctoral fellow, KP Smith, and medical microbiology fellow, Anthony Kang.

The article describes use of artificial intelligence in combination with a Metafer (MetaSystems) automated microscope to automatically interpret blood culture Gram stains without human intervention. 
 
Link to Abstract. 
Link to final accepted manuscript file.