Mayo Clinic hosts AI conference, with focus on health care workers, computer scientists working together

Mayo Clinic hosts AI conference, with focus on health care workers, computer scientists working together

ROCHESTER — More than 200 computer scientists, health researchers and medical professionals are in Rochester this weekend for the Machine Learning for Healthcare conference. The goal: more collaboration between the scientists who create artificial intelligence algorithms and the health care providers who will ultimately use them. "Historically, the conference has been primarily scientists, I would say," said Shauna Overgaard, Mayo Clinic's senio…