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Psychology & Psychiatry

Should you use ChatGPT as a therapist? Tool raises safety concerns among psychology experts

Sharing how you're feeling can be frightening. Friends and family can judge, and therapists can be expensive and hard to come by, which is why some people are turning to ChatGPT for help with their mental health.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Guiding epidemic interventions through a fog of noisy data

Imperial College London's Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology reports a model-predictive control approach that times non-pharmaceutical interventions from noisy real-time case data, generally achieving better control ...

Oncology & Cancer

Using deep learning for precision cancer therapy

Nearly 50 new cancer therapies are approved every year. This is good news. "But for patients and their treating physicians, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track and to select the treatment methods from which ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI matches dermatologists in assessing common skin cancer

A simple AI model has been shown to perform on a par with experienced dermatologists when assessing the aggressiveness of a common form of skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma. The research was headed by the University of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

AI tools fall short in predicting suicide, study finds

The accuracy of machine learning algorithms for predicting suicidal behavior is too low to be useful for screening or for prioritizing high-risk individuals for interventions, according to a new study published September ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

AI-powered eye scan predicts risk of cognitive decline and dementia

A new study led by researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of retinal photographs can predict ...

Health informatics

Q&A: Transparency in medical AI systems is vital, researchers say

While debate rumbles about how generative artificial intelligence will change jobs, AI is already altering health care. AI systems are being used for everything from drug discovery to diagnostic tasks in radiology and clinical ...

Health

Promise and perils of AI in citizen science explored in study

A new study published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance by a team from Stanford Medicine investigates the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize citizen science and advance health equity. The study, ...

Ophthalmology

AI maps blood vessels in the retina for better diagnostics

Researchers from a joint Skoltech-University of Sharjah laboratory and AIRI Institute have automated the analysis of retina images used to diagnose diabetic retinopathy. This refers to retinal damage in diabetes patients ...

Neuroscience

Sharper images: How the brain filters out the noise

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Tech has discovered how lateral inhibition helps our brains process visual information, and it could expand our knowledge of sensory perception, leading to applications in ...

Health

Headways and hurdles: How AI is shaping the future of medicine

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize numerous aspects of human life, with health care among the most critical fields set to benefit from this transformation. Medicine is a complex, costly and high-impact ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI reduces false positives by 37.3% in breast cancer diagnosis

Despite making up half of the global population, women's health has often been sidelined by traditional health care systems. Systemic neglect has led to delayed diagnoses and inadequate care. Artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Genetics

A federated future to support genomic medicine

The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) is transforming how sensitive human genomic data is shared and accessed. Building on the longstanding European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)—a database for human genetic, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Could you replace your therapist with an AI chatbot?

Artificial intelligence used as a therapeutic tool dates back to the 1960s when a program called ELIZA gave scripted responses to users who described their emotional states. While novel, it had no real understanding of the ...

Radiology & Imaging

Cancer screening rates rebound post-pandemic

Preventive screenings for cancer declined during the pandemic, with lockdowns, social distancing and COVID-19 surges keeping many from needing mammograms and colonoscopies.