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Artificial intelligence tool uses chest X-ray to differentiate worst cases of COVID-19
Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up to 80 percent accuracy which COVID-19 patients would develop life-threatening complications within four days, a new study ...
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Eliminating bias from healthcare AI critical to improve health equity
Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare has the potential to transform medical decision-making and treatment, but these algorithms must be thoroughly tested and continuously monitored to avoid unintended consequences ...
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Researchers use AI to identify a new bone shape measure in knee osteoarthritis
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a global health problem. Almost half the adults over the age of 75 have some form of knee OA—one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Because there is no cure for knee OA, current treatment ...
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Disparities persisted as orthopaedic visits shifted to telemedicine
Like other medical specialties at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, orthopedic surgery rapidly pivoted from in-person visits to remote appointments via telemedicine. Analysis of that initial experience finds that some groups ...
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AI analytics predict COVID-19 patients' daily trajectory in UK intensive care
Researchers used AI to identify which daily changing clinical parameters best predict intervention responses in critically ill COVID-19 patients.
May 11, 2021
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Patients may not take advice from AI doctors who know their names
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health applications grows, health providers are looking for ways to improve patients' experience with their machine doctors.
May 11, 2021
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Sound-processing algorithms in hearing aidsdegrade ability to discriminate sounds
A team of researchers at the Ear Institute, University College London has found that the sound-processing algorithms used in hearing aids can degrade the ability of hearing-impaired people to discriminate sounds. In their ...
Male infertility scoring using AI-assisted image classification requiring no programming
A research group led by Dr. Hideyuki Kobayashi at Toho University Omori Medical Center in Tokyo developed an AI-assisted image classifier that provides scores for histological testis images of patients with azoospermia. The ...
May 10, 2021
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Algorithms show accuracy in gauging unconsciousness under general anesthesia
Anesthestic drugs act on the brain, but most anesthesiologists rely on heart rate, respiratory rate, and movement to infer whether surgery patients remain unconscious to the desired degree. In a new study, a research team ...
May 07, 2021
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Computational model demonstrates similarity in how humans and insects learn about their surroundings
Even the humble fruit fly craves a dose of the happy hormone, according to a new study from the University of Sussex which shows how they may use dopamine to learn in a similar manner to humans.
May 07, 2021
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Too much, too little or just right: Researchers study proper 'dosing' of telehealth
More than ever, patients are using telehealth to ask doctors and nurses about worrying blood-pressure readings, nauseating migraines and stubborn foot ulcers. But for patients with chronic conditions, how frequent should ...
May 07, 2021
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Regular virus tests can curb infection rates
At its peak, the current COVID-19 pandemic has all but brought social and economic life to a virtual standstill. Although lockdowns and social distancing have proven effective in bringing down infection rates and COVID-associated ...
May 07, 2021
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Strength in numbers shown in ambulatory care metrics
The difference made to health care quality measurement by voluntary data sharing across a region's health systems and ambulatory care practices is examined in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association by ...
May 07, 2021
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Researchers develop mathematical model predicting disease spread patterns
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials seized on contact tracing as the most effective way to anticipate the virus's migration from the initial, densely populated hot spots and try to curb its spread. Months ...
May 06, 2021
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How can scientists predict a COVID-19 outbreak? There's an app for that
A mobile app that uses crowd-sourced data on COVID-19 symptoms can accurately identify where local coronavirus outbreaks will appear, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists who developed the app.
May 06, 2021
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Trial demonstrates early AI-guided detection of heart disease in routine practice
Heart disease can take a number of forms, but some types of heart disease, such as asymptomatic low ejection fraction, can be hard to recognize, especially in the early stages when treatment would be most effective. The ECG ...
May 06, 2021
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How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?
Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic—experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has found that experts such as epidemiologists and statisticians made far more ...
May 05, 2021
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Artificial intelligence system may improve diagnosis of complicated metastatic cancers
To improve diagnosis for patients with complex metastatic cancers, especially those in low-resource settings, researchers from the Mahmood Lab at the Brigham and Women's Hospital developed an artificial intelligence (AI) ...
May 05, 2021
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Targeted methods to control SARS-CoV-2 spread
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, intense social distancing and lockdown measures were the primary weapon in the fight against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but they came with a monumental societal burden. New research ...
May 05, 2021
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AI spots individual neurons in the eye better than human experts
A new combination of optical coherence tomography (OCT), adaptive optics and deep neural networks should enable better diagnosis and monitoring for neuron-damaging eye and brain diseases like glaucoma.
May 05, 2021
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