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Precision Medicine Tool May Accurately Predict Bariatric Surgery Outcomes

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Researchers from the University at Buffalo (UB) have demonstrated that a tool originally designed to predict a patient’s risk level for various addictions using genetic and psychosocial factors...

$2.8M NIH Grant to Support Development of Kidney Transplant AI

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Researchers at University of Florida (UF) Health have been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision...

AI Tool May Improve Tumor Removal Accuracy During Breast Cancer Surgery

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Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Surgery, the Joint UNC-North Carolina State University (NCSU) Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the UNC Lineberger...

University of Texas Awarded Funding for Disease Relapse Prediction AI

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have been awarded a $450,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop a machine learning-based model to predict...

AI Achieves High Diagnostic Accuracy in Virtual Primary Care Setting

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Diagnostic agreement between providers and an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool was high within the context of virtual primary care, according to a study published recently in Mayo Clinic...

ML Predicts Suicidal Ideation Among Sexual, Gender Minority Individuals

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Researchers demonstrated that a machine learning (ML) model could effectively predict short- and long-term suicidal ideation in sexual and gender minority individuals using ecological momentary...

CDC Awards to Establish National Infectious Disease Forecasting Network

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded roughly $262.5 million in grant funding over the next five years to 13 institutions to help establish a national infectious disease and...

ML Helps Identify Variations in Individualized Normal Temperature Ranges

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Machine learning (ML) may help define personalized temperature norms and improve the clinical utility of oral temperature measurements, according to a study published this month in JAMA Internal...

Breast Cancer Detection AI Performs On Par with Human Mammogram Readers

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The diagnostic performance of a commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm was comparable with that of human readers of mammograms, according to a study published recently in...

Machine Learning Model May Help Optimize Therapeutic Antibodies

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Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a machine learning (ML) model to help optimize therapeutic antibodies and make them less prone to binding non-target molecules, according to a...

University of Houston Awarded $3M to Develop Lupus Diagnostic AI

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Researchers from the University of Houston have been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) to...

Pancreatic Cancer Prediction Model May Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies

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Researchers have developed and externally validated a prediction model to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer using routinely collected blood biomarkers, according to a recent study published in JAMA...

US Providers Accelerating Spending on Health IT Software, AI

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United States healthcare providers are accelerating their investment into IT and software technologies, with 80 percent of healthcare executives reporting that they’ve increased spending...

Artificial Intelligence Flags Knee Osteoarthritis Using Medical Images

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Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT Austin) College of Natural Sciences and Dell Medical School have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of identifying...

Microsoft Collab to Build World’s Largest Pathology, Oncology Imaging AI

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Microsoft and healthcare technology company Paige have launched a partnership to create the world’s largest image-based artificial intelligence (AI) models for digital pathology and...

Patient Triage Artificial Intelligence May Boost Future Outbreak Response

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Researchers from Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven patient triage platform capable of forecasting length of hospitalization and disease severity...

Pathology Foundation Model Leverages Medical Twitter Images, Comments

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Researchers from Stanford have leveraged pathology images and comments from Twitter, now known as X, to develop a large public dataset and artificial intelligence (AI) model for pathology image...

AI Voice Assistants Insufficient for Layperson CPR Instructions

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Researchers from Mass General Brigham, New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Boston Children’s Hospital demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants...

American Heart Association Releases Guidance for Patient Data Sharing

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The American Heart Association (AHA) released new policy guidance in Circulation this week outlining six principles for patient data sharing in medical research. The statement emphasizes that EHRs,...

Deep Learning Model Automates Severe Heart Valve Disease Detection

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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a deep learning (DL) approach that can accurately detect aortic stenosis by analyzing heart ultrasound scans, according to a study published last...