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Gastroenterology

Could your phone detect hepatic encephalopathy by listening to you read?

Research from the University of Michigan suggests that one day a phone app could be able to detect the development of hepatic encephalopathy in patients just by listening to them speak.

Cardiology

A transparent AI approach helps provide a more tailored cardiovascular risk assessment

Risk calculators are used to evaluate disease risk for millions of patients, making their accuracy crucial. But when national models are adapted for local populations, they often deteriorate, losing accuracy and interpretability.

Medical economics

Study shows State Innovation Models improve health data

First-of-its-kind research by Tarang Parekh, assistant professor of epidemiology, reviewed the State Innovation Models (SIM), a payment system introduced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2013, which provides ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Intimate partner violence: Preserving patient privacy can save lives

Historically, South Carolina has had some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence, or IPV, in the U.S. IPV encompasses any physical or sexual violence, stalking and psychological aggression by a current or previous ...

Health informatics

Digital health, precision medicine: Review urges integration

A new systematic review of pharmacogenomics clinical decision support systems used in clinical practice in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology suggests that these e-health tools can help accelerate pharmacogenomics, precision/personalized ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Using machine learning to uncover predictors of well-being

Irrespective of their personal, professional and social circumstances, different individuals can experience varying levels of life satisfaction, fulfillment and happiness. This general measure of life satisfaction, broadly ...

Health informatics

Ehrapy: A new open-source tool for analyzing complex health data

Led by Helmholtz Munich, scientists have developed an accessible software solution specifically designed for the analysis of complex medical health data. The open-source software called "ehrapy" enables researchers to structure ...

Neuroscience

Optimizing electrical stimulation therapies with machine learning

Like a pacemaker for the heart, nerve stimulation devices are implanted to send pulses of electricity to evoke activity in nerves throughout the body. These electrical stimulation devices have been used to treat and control ...

Radiology & Imaging

Beyond conventional pathology. Label-free histology meets AI

A collaborative research team led by POSTECH Professor Chulhong Kim and Professor Chan Kwon Jung of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to analyze ...

Genetics

Hundreds of new cancer driver genes predicted by algorithm

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have discovered hundreds of potential new cancer driver genes. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, significantly expands the list of possible ...

Radiology & Imaging

Vision-based ChatGPT shows deficits interpreting radiologic images

Researchers evaluating the performance of ChatGPT-4 Vision found that the model performed well on text-based radiology exam questions but struggled to answer image-related questions accurately. The study's results were published ...

Radiology & Imaging

A data-efficient foundation model for biomarker detection

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems shows promise in medicine, where they can be used to detect diseases earlier, improve treatments, and ease staff workloads. But their performance depends on how well the AI ...

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Researchers find regional variations in concussion diagnoses

Researchers in Michigan State University's Department of Kinesiology found significant geographic variations in concussion diagnoses in United States emergency departments—with the highest rates in the South and lower rates ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism

Machine learning helps identify rheumatoid arthritis subtypes

A machine-learning tool created by Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) investigators can help distinguish subtypes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which may help scientists find ways to improve care ...

Oncology & Cancer

Software tool analyzes cancer cells in biopsy slides

An innovative software tool could advance cancer pathology by providing diagnostic insights from tissue biopsies. The tool, called METI (Morphology-Enhanced Spatial Transcriptome Analysis Integrator), was developed by researchers ...