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Open-source AI matches top proprietary model in solving tough medical cases

Artificial intelligence can transform medicine in a myriad of ways, including its promise to act as a trusted diagnostic aide to busy clinicians.

Gerontology & Geriatrics

New AI model can estimate a person's true biological age from five drops of blood

We all know someone who seems to defy aging—people who look younger than their peers despite being the same age. What's their secret? Scientists at Osaka University (Japan) may have found a way to quantify this difference. ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Portable AI system helps detect cognitive impairment

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease or dementia, so identifying those with cognitive issues early could lead to interventions and better outcomes. But diagnosing MCI can be a long ...

Health

Promise and perils of AI in citizen science explored in study

A new study published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance by a team from Stanford Medicine investigates the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize citizen science and advance health equity. The study, ...

Ophthalmology

AI maps blood vessels in the retina for better diagnostics

Researchers from a joint Skoltech-University of Sharjah laboratory and AIRI Institute have automated the analysis of retina images used to diagnose diabetic retinopathy. This refers to retinal damage in diabetes patients ...

Neuroscience

Sharper images: How the brain filters out the noise

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Tech has discovered how lateral inhibition helps our brains process visual information, and it could expand our knowledge of sensory perception, leading to applications in ...

Health

Headways and hurdles: How AI is shaping the future of medicine

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize numerous aspects of human life, with health care among the most critical fields set to benefit from this transformation. Medicine is a complex, costly and high-impact ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI reduces false positives by 37.3% in breast cancer diagnosis

Despite making up half of the global population, women's health has often been sidelined by traditional health care systems. Systemic neglect has led to delayed diagnoses and inadequate care. Artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Genetics

A federated future to support genomic medicine

The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) is transforming how sensitive human genomic data is shared and accessed. Building on the longstanding European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)—a database for human genetic, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Could you replace your therapist with an AI chatbot?

Artificial intelligence used as a therapeutic tool dates back to the 1960s when a program called ELIZA gave scripted responses to users who described their emotional states. While novel, it had no real understanding of the ...

Radiology & Imaging

Cancer screening rates rebound post-pandemic

Preventive screenings for cancer declined during the pandemic, with lockdowns, social distancing and COVID-19 surges keeping many from needing mammograms and colonoscopies.

Ophthalmology

AI makes glaucoma screening accessible in new study

Imagine walking into a supermarket, train station, or shopping mall and having your eyes screened for glaucoma within seconds—no appointment needed. With the AI-based Glaucoma Screening (AI-GS) network, this vision could ...

Genetics

A new cryptography framework for secure genomic studies

Advances in generative artificial intelligence and machine learning, trained on large-scale datasets across multiple institutions, have the potential to revolutionize medicine. However, data is hard to gather. It is siloed ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI diagnostic platform improves early detection of skin cancer

If detected early, the prognosis for skin cancer is excellent. An innovative full-body scanner linked to an AI diagnostic platform is set to help with early detection of melanoma. In just six minutes, it automatically scans ...

Gerontology & Geriatrics

Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making

A few years ago, when second-year School of Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh was working as a nurse on a general surgery unit in South Korea, she was struck by the feeling that many patients weren't getting the opportunity ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI successfully reduces workload in lung cancer screening

A study by researchers from the University of Liverpool and the Research Institute for Diagnostic Accuracy, Netherlands, has demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly improve the efficiency of lung ...