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Medications

Challenging negative data helps AI models better identify effective antibodies

Imagine you are developing antibodies—drugs precisely aimed at a target, for example a viral protein or onco-marker. You test a series of antibodies and find that some work, while others do not.

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 ...

Medical research

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

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 informatics

How is AI influencing the field of medicine?

The words "artificial intelligence" are now ubiquitous, their influence having risen dramatically in recent years and their impact being felt in health care and many other job sectors. In health care, artificial intelligence, ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI-powered map of the abdomen could help find cancer early on

Radiologists are beginning to use AI-based computer vision models to help speed up the laborious process of parsing medical scans. However, these models require large amounts of carefully labeled training data to achieve ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

The need for novel AI in women's health

Research has shown the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in the diagnosis of conditions, like endometriosis, but what happens if the modeling is incorrect?

Oncology & Cancer

AI can boost efficacy of cancer treatment, but doctors remain key

A new study led by researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center, in collaboration with investigators from the University of Michigan, shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can help doctors make better decisions when treating ...

Oncology & Cancer

Urine-based test detects aggressive prostate cancer

Traditional approaches to prostate cancer screening involve blood tests, MRI, and biopsies. However, in addition to being uncomfortable, some of these procedures result in overdiagnosis of low-grade cancers.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New tool tracks diseases from wastewater in EU

The European Commission has just launched a new tool that supports the tracking of the spread of infectious diseases by analyzing wastewater: the European Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard. It displays data from across the ...

Oncology & Cancer

Blood test accurately detects colon cancer

An experimental blood test can effectively and accurately detect colon cancer in middle-aged folks and seniors, a new study says. The research is published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.