Deep Learning

AI Model Improves Colorectal Cancer Recurrence Prediction

by Shania Kennedy

According to a Mayo Clinic-led study published in Gastroenterology earlier this month, an artificial intelligence (AI) model that incorporates a deep-learning framework may improve predictions of...

Machine-Learning Tools Predict Post-Op Complications, Surgery Duration

by Shania Kennedy

New research shows that machine-learning (ML) tools can use perioperative data to accurately predict post-operative complications and surgery duration. Surgery and its potential complications create...

Deep-Learning Model Predicts Physician Burnout Using EHR Logs

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have created a deep-learning prediction model that can identify physician burnout by pulling automatically generated EHR activity logs, which may be more convenient than standard approaches...

Deep Learning May Improve Identification of Brain Tumors

by Shania Kennedy

New research published in JAMA Network Open indicates that a deep learning tool trained to identify and classify brain tumors based on standard MRIs may aid neuroradiologists in diagnosis. The...

AI Protein Design Software Trained to Generate Medicines, Vaccines

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Harvard and the University of Washington School of Medicine (UW Medicine) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that uses deep learning to design proteins with various...

Artificial Intelligence Improves Endoscopy Detection Rates, Reporting

by Shania Kennedy

A new study in JAMA Network Open found that the use of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool designed to review videos of small bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE) resulted in a higher detection rate...

Deep Learning Effective at Predicting Cerebral Palsy in Infants

by Shania Kennedy

In a prognostic study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers described the development of a deep-learning (DL) model that can effectively predict cerebral palsy based on infants’ spontaneous...

AI Framework Differentiates Alzheimer’s, Other Dementias

by Shania Kennedy

A study published in Nature Communications outlines a newly-developed artificial intelligence (AI) framework that can successfully identify and differentiate between normal cognition (NC), mild...

AI-Generated ‘Maps’ May Help Improve Mental Well-being

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that utilizes deep learning to estimate individuals’ psychological age, future...

AI May Be More Prone to Errors in Image-Based Diagnoses Than Clinicians

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have found that deep neural networks (DNNs) make mistakes in image-based medical diagnoses that humans are less likely to make, and they hypothesize that these mistakes may indicate that...

PA Health System Develops ML Model to Interpret Cancer Mutations

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a machine-learning (ML) platform to help clinicians identify cancer mutations and interpret their potential significance...

Types of Deep Learning & Their Uses in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

Deep learning (DL), which is also known as deep structured learning or hierarchical learning, is a subset of machine learning. It is loosely based on the way neurons connect to one another to process information in animal brains. To...

AI Model Can Accurately Detect Multiple Retinal Diseases in Real Time

by Shania Kennedy

New research has found that a deep-learning (DL) algorithm can detect multiple retinal diseases simultaneously in a clinical setting. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers developed...

Deep Learning Model Able to Detect Emotion Related to COVID-19

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in Applied Soft Computing found that the content of emergency response phone calls could be analyzed and classified by a deep learning model based on emotion detection, and then...

UPMC, Pitt Develop Machine Learning Model to Predict Brain Injury Outcomes

by Shania Kennedy

According to researchers from UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, advanced machine learning can be used to predict outcomes in patients with severe traumatic brain injuries...

New AI Model Classifies Seizures More Accurately Than Standard Methods

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) model, a type of deep learning model, for classifying epileptic seizures that is designed to provide maximum accuracy and minor...

Swarm Learning Models to Predict Cancer Biomarkers Outperform Other AI

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in Nature explored swarm learning (SL) models as predictors of molecular alterations directly from standard histopathology images and hypothesized that these models could be a...

AI Method to Predict Sepsis Mortality Outperforms Conventional Approach

by Shania Kennedy

Machine learning (ML) algorithms that leveraged an administrative database outperformed conventional methods of predicting sepsis mortality rates, according to a study published in the Journal of...

AI to Detect Hip Fracture Outperforms Clinicians, But Use May Be Limited

by Shania Kennedy

A deep-learning algorithm outperformed clinicians at detecting proximal femoral fractures, a type of hip fracture, when presented with X-ray images, according to a study published in The Lancet Digital...

Machine Learning Predicts C. Diff Infection

by Erin McNemar, MPA

According to recently published data from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC), several commonly used machine learning algorithms (MLAs) can accurately predict which...