Machine Learning

Yale Researchers Develop ML Tool for Personalized Blood Pressure Management

by Shania Kennedy

A team of Yale University researchers has developed a machine learning (ML)-based clinical decision support tool to personalize recommendations for pursuing intensive or standard blood pressure...

Federated Learning Framework Aims to Improve Fairness in AI Screening Tools

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering has been awarded a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a federated learning (FL)-based...

Digitally Mature Providers Glean More Value from Analytics, AI Adoption

by Shania Kennedy

A new report by Frost & Sullivan, commissioned by Innovaccer, has found links between US health system digital maturity and performance across several digital transformation metrics, including the...

Cleveland Clinic, IBM Partner to Install First Healthcare Quantum Computer

by Shania Kennedy

Cleveland Clinic and IBM announced that the deployment of the first healthcare quantum computer in the US has begun on the health system’s main campus, a key component of the two...

ML Tools Facilitate Early Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in BMJ Health & Care Informatics shows that machine-learning (ML) models can accurately predict autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in children 18 to 30 months old using...

University Gets Funding For AI-Driven Projects to Mitigate Health Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

The University of Miami announced that it has received grants for multiple projects aimed at addressing health disparities through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as...

Clinical Trials Assessing ML Methods Lack Transparent Reporting, Inclusivity

by Mark Melchionna

A study published in JAMA Network Open found that researchers must improve the randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to test machine-learning (ML) algorithms by making the trials more inclusive and...

ML-Based Automated Screening Tool Can Determine Pulmonary Fibrosis Risk

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, the University of Chicago, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Mayo Clinic have created a machine learning (ML)-based screening tool...

Machine-Learning Model Can Help Identify Ovarian Cancer Treatment Targets

by Shania Kennedy

A study published last month in Nature Metabolism shows that a machine learning (ML)-based computational platform can identify specific metabolic targets in ovarian cancer, which could be used in...

Machine Learning Finds New Patterns of Decline in ALS, Alzheimer’s

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a machine-learning (ML) tool capable of identifying new patterns of health decline in neurodegenerative diseases such as...

New Machine-Learning Tool Identifies Injection Drug Use Using EHR Data

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool that can identify people who inject drugs using EHR data faster and more...

Researchers to Create AI Algorithms That Predict Patient Risk for Rare Diseases

by Mark Melchionna

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Florida College of Medicine are creating a set of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to...

ML Algorithm Can Differentiate Between Inflammatory Conditions in Kids

by Mark Melchionna

A study published in Lancet Digital Health found that a machine-learning algorithm identified the differences between multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and Kawasaki Disease (KD),...

NIH to Help Fund Development of ML Algorithm for Cardiovascular Care

by Mark Melchionna

With financial support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Eko aims to create a machine-learning algorithm for cardiovascular care that...

Leveraging Data Analytics, Clinical Intelligence to Bolster Perioperative Care

by Shania Kennedy

Healthcare organizations are continually looking for ways to improve efficiency and optimize workflows without burdening staff or patients. However, with staffing and resource shortages plaguing health systems since the beginning of the...

Data Science Tools Can Help Boost Speed, Quality of MRI Reconstruction

by Mark Melchionna

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), new research findings from the University of Minnesota indicate that the use of data science...

Harvard, Stanford Develop Self-Supervised AI to Detect Disease Via X-ray

by Shania Kennedy

Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Stanford University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can detect disease within chest radiographs using natural language processing...

Collaborative Approach to Developing Radiography ML Helps Quantify Joint Damage

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in JAMA Network Open last week shows that machine-learning (ML) models developed using a crowdsourcing approach can improve efforts to quantify radiographic joint damage in...

Framework to Mitigate Bias in Radiology Machine-Learning Models

by Shania Kennedy

A special report published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence last week highlighted the practices that can lead to bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) models increasingly...

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...