Artificial Intelligence

Exploring a Framework for Pediatric Data Use in Health AI Research

by Shania Kennedy

The number of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-enabled medical devices authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has risen in recent years as healthcare organizations have become increasingly...

Machine Learning Methods May Improve Brain Tumor Characterization

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from University of Florida (UF) Health have demonstrated that a combination of machine learning (ML) and liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) can help make...

$31M Awards to Support Medical AI Innovation at UTHealth Houston

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston were awarded over $31 million for 16 projects aimed at driving innovations in healthcare artificial intelligence...

Consumers Believe Generative AI May Make Healthcare More Affordable

by Shania Kennedy

New data from Deloitte’s 2023 Health Care Consumer Survey indicate that health is a major driver of generative artificial intelligence (AI) use among consumers, many of whom expressed optimism at...

MD Anderson Cancer Center Launches Institute for Data Science in Oncology

by Shania Kennedy

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center recently launched its Institute for Data Science in Oncology (IDSO), which aims to transform cancer care and research through the application of...

Exploring the Role of Cleveland Clinic’s First Chief Analytics Officer

by Shania Kennedy

As data analytics becomes more valuable and accessible, health systems are creating leadership roles to reflect this shift. Chief data officer and chief analytics officer roles are becoming more common, but what does such a role...

Large Language Model Diagnoses, Triages Without Introducing Biases

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health have demonstrated that Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) can diagnose and triage various health conditions on par with...

Vanderbilt, Duke Awarded $1.25M to Improve Health Systems’ AI Oversight

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to establish a...

Emory University Establishes Empathetic AI for Health Institute

by Shania Kennedy

Emory University will launch the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute (Emory AI.Health) later this month, which will support the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics...

Will Clinicians Become Dependent on Artificial Intelligence Tools?

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have garnered much attention in the healthcare industry in recent years, but the hype raises significant questions and concerns. How should these technologies be developed? For what use cases?...

Generative AI May Facilitate Improved Chest X-Ray Interpretation

by Shania Kennedy

A team of Northwestern Medicine researchers has created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of interpreting chest radiographs with accuracy on par with or above radiologists for some...

AI Tools May Detect Heart Valve Disease, Predict Cardiovascular Risk

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning tools may be capable of accurately detecting heart valve disease and predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to two preliminary...

ML Model Estimates Chemotherapy Success in Bone Cancer Patients

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a machine learning (ML) tool capable of estimating the percent necrosis (PN)—the percentage of a tumor that is considered “dead”...

$2.3M NIH Award to Support AI-Driven Brain Imaging Research

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Indiana University have been awarded $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the development of open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools for...

Achieving Clinical AI Fairness Requires Multidisciplinary Collaboration

by Shania Kennedy

In a perspective published recently in npj Digital Medicine, researchers led by a team at Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School asserted that the pursuit of fair artificial...

Publicly Trained LLMs Identify Musculoskeletal Pain Location, Acuity

by Shania Kennedy

Mount Sinai researchers have demonstrated that publicly trained large language models (LLMs) can identify the pain location and pain location of musculoskeletal conditions like shoulder, knee, and...

Biden Issues Executive Order to Ensure Safe, Secure AI Development

by Shania Kennedy

Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) that establishes guardrails for the technology to ensure that it is “safe, secure, and trustworthy,”...

American College of Surgeons Develops Cancer Survival Prediction Tool

by Shania Kennedy

According to research presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2023, a machine learning (ML) tool can accurately estimate patient-specific prognoses for thyroid,...

NLP Tool Flags Signs of Depression, Anxiety in Healthcare Workers

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine have demonstrated that a natural language processing (NLP) tool can effectively detect pandemic-related signs of anxiety and...

Cedars-Sinai Deep Learning Tool Accurately Predicts Atrial Fibrillation

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai demonstrated that a deep learning (DL) algorithm can accurately detect signs of atrial fibrillation in patients without symptoms, according to...