Last update:

Health informatics news

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Ophthalmology

AI makes glaucoma screening accessible in new study

Imagine walking into a supermarket, train station, or shopping mall and having your eyes screened for glaucoma within seconds—no appointment needed. With the AI-based Glaucoma Screening (AI-GS) network, this vision could ...

Genetics

A new cryptography framework for secure genomic studies

Advances in generative artificial intelligence and machine learning, trained on large-scale datasets across multiple institutions, have the potential to revolutionize medicine. However, data is hard to gather. It is siloed ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI diagnostic platform improves early detection of skin cancer

If detected early, the prognosis for skin cancer is excellent. An innovative full-body scanner linked to an AI diagnostic platform is set to help with early detection of melanoma. In just six minutes, it automatically scans ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI successfully reduces workload in lung cancer screening

A study by researchers from the University of Liverpool and the Research Institute for Diagnostic Accuracy, Netherlands, has demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly improve the efficiency of lung ...

Gerontology & Geriatrics

Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making

A few years ago, when second-year School of Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh was working as a nurse on a general surgery unit in South Korea, she was struck by the feeling that many patients weren't getting the opportunity ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New blood test identifies organ aging, links to 30 future diseases

Our organs age at different rates, and a blood test determining how much they've each aged could predict the risk of conditions like lung cancer and heart disease decades later, finds a new study led by University College ...