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Old data can transform the future of health care

Patient preference studies (research into what patients value in their treatment) are increasingly used to inform drug development and regulatory approval decisions. But these studies are expensive and time-consuming to conduct. ...

Oncology & Cancer

Machine learning model helps predict urgent care visits for lung cancer patients

A study published in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics demonstrates that machine learning models incorporating patient-reported outcomes and wearable sensor data can predict which patients with non–small cell lung cancer ...

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 ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI tool mimics radiologist gaze for chest X-ray analysis

Artificial intelligence can scan a chest X-ray and diagnose if an abnormality is fluid in the lungs, an enlarged heart or cancer. But being right is not enough, said Ngan Le, a University of Arkansas assistant professor of ...

Neuroscience

AI model uses MRI scans to measure how fast the brain ages

A new artificial intelligence model measures how fast a patient's brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and dementia, according to USC researchers.

Health

AI 'scribe' increases face-to-face time with patients

When doctors teamed with an artificial intelligence tool that "listened" in and took notes on patient visits, the tool significantly decreased the time providers spent interacting with patients' notes instead of with the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Humans outperform AI in disease coding test

An artificial intelligence model designed to classify complex medical case documents has been bested by its human challengers—but researchers say the AI technology could still be of enormous benefit.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study demonstrates feasibility, effectiveness of mobile care for COPD

A multimodal, digital community-based intervention was feasible and decreased illness-related distress in treating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study led by UMass Chan Medical ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Research indicates fitness apps fuel disordered eating

With New Year resolutions in full swing and health tracking apps at our fingertips, new research reveals concerning links between health and fitness apps and disordered eating, body image concerns and excessive exercise.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

AI chatbots are mostly correct, but incomplete, on endometriosis

Three of the leading chatbots can provide basic information about endometriosis, a painful gynecologic condition that affects up to 1 in 10 women, but their responses are not as comprehensive as the guidance from health care ...