Health informatics

Pre-training in medical data: A survey

In a paper published in Machine Intelligence Research, a team of researchers summarizes a large number of related publications and the existing benchmarking in the medical domain. Notably, the survey briefly describes how ...

Oncology & Cancer

Classifying cancer cells to predict metastatic potential

Cancer cells that initiate metastasis, or the spread of the disease from its primary location, are different from cancer cells that stay in the original tumor. Distinguishing metastasis-initiating cell types can determine ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

AI models have higher accuracy for estimating gestational age

Artificial intelligence (AI) models based on standard plane ultrasonography images and fly-to ultrasonography videos have higher accuracy for estimating gestational age compared with manual fetal biometry measurements, according ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Precision insights can be found in wastewater

Research from the lab of Fangqiong Ling at Washington University in St. Louis showed earlier this year that the amount of SARS-CoV-2 in a wastewater system was correlated with the burden of disease—COVID-19—in the region ...

Oncology & Cancer

Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers

The first step in choosing the appropriate treatment for a cancer patient is to identify their specific type of cancer, including determining the primary site—the organ or part of the body where the cancer begins.

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