Machine learning

News • Biomarker panel

Seven proteins could lead to better blood tests for Alzheimer’s

More biomarkers for better insights on Alzheimer's disease: a new study explores how a panel of seven proteins could help predict disease progression and inform more accurate treatment choices.

News • Biomarker-agnostic detection

Electronic nose uses AI to “smell” ovarian cancer

Using machine learning, researchers have trained an electronic nose to detect early signs of ovarian cancer in the blood. The method could eventually be used to find many different cancers.

News • Gait biomechanics analysis

AI predicts success of hip surgery

Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed an AI model to predict how well patients with hip osteoarthritis will be able to walk again after an operation.

News • AI detects unseen connection

Insulin resistance identified as risk factor for cancer

Not just linked to diabetes: For the first time, researchers demonstrated that insulin resistance is a risk factor for 12 types of cancer, including uterine and breast cancer.

News • Neurosciences

New insights on the onset of Huntington's disease

Why does Huntington’s disease begin at very different ages? Using advanced AI techniques, neuroscientists from the University of Barcelona found a way to better answer this question.

News • Screening for specific pregnancy complications

AI model to advance maternal health in low-resource settings

Siemens Healthineers, with funding from the Gates Foundation, plans to develop artificial intelligence (AI) to enable earlier prediction of pre-eclampsia and anemia in low-resource settings.

News • Clinically validated framework

AI helps detect kidney cancer faster

A novel machine-learning-based solution analyses CT images and helps radiologists detect both malignant and benign lesions in the kidney more quickly and reliably.

News • Risk estimation of progression in the knee

AI predicts future X-rays of osteoarthritis patients

An AI system that can predict what a patient’s knee X-ray will look like a year in the future could transform how millions of people with osteoarthritis understand and manage their condition.

News • Machine learning analysis

‘Two-for-one’ screening uses mammograms to predict heart disease in women

Using AI to help detect one of the leading killers of women worldwide: A new machine learning model can successfully predict heart disease risk in women by analysing mammograms.

Article • AI-powered prediction

Machine learning identifies cardiotoxicity risk in breast cancer patients

Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that uses cardiac MRI images to help identify breast cancer patients who may be at risk of cardiotoxicity during cancer treatment. The research, led by cardiologist Dr Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan, was presented at the European Society of Cardiology's Cardio-Oncology Conference in Florence in June.

News • Raman spectroscopy and interpretable machine learning

AI-assisted tissue differentiation for smart surgical tools

By identifying the unique biological signatures that guide AI tissue classification, new research lays the foundation for smart surgical tools with the added feature of biomolecular-level precision.

News • Proteomic-based score

AI measures tumor ‘stemness’ to predict cancer aggressiveness

A new AI-based tool measures cancer aggressiveness by analyzing the ‘stemness’ of tumors – their similarity to pluripotent stem cells. This could pave the way for new therapies.

News • Autonomous system trained on surgical videos

Robot performs realistic surgery without human help

A potentially transformative advancement in surgical robotics: A robot trained on videos of surgeries successfully performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help.

News • Photoacoustic computed tomography

PACT: AI-assisted edge in breast imaging

A new technique called photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) offers a breast imaging alternative without the discomfort, high costs, or risk associated with the conventional evaluation methods.

News • Machine learning analysis

Cancer genomics: new ML tool weeds out false positives

A major challenge in cancer genomics is separating meaningful mutations from false positives. A new tool uses machine learning to significantly reduce these errors.

News • Classification of movement disorders

Tremor or myoclonus? AI helps tell them apart

Movement disorders often show overlapping symptoms, making it difficult for doctors to make the correct diagnosis. A new AI tool could help distinguish between different disorders, such as tremor and myoclonus.

News • Combining spatial transcriptomics, pseudotime and machine learning

More precise than PSA: New biomarkers for prostate cancer found in urine

Using AI and extensive analyses of gene activity in tumours, researchers have found new, precise biomarkers to diagnose prostate cancer at an early stage through a simple urine sample.

News • Machine learning analysis

Breast cancer: AI predicts metastasis from recurrence

The location and timing of breast cancer recurrence may allow AI to predict the risk of metastasis, a new study shows. This is an essential step towards developing personalised treatment strategies.

News • Responsiveness of machine learning models

Will an AI recognize patient deterioration in the ICU? Not quite yet

Machine learning models fail to detect key health deteriorations in the ICU: a new study reveals that 66% of critical injuries in hospitals would go unnoticed if the current AI models were put to use.

News • Deep and ensemble learning improve performance

New AI tool surpasses previous methods in colorectal cancer tissue analysis

Researchers developed an advanced AI tool for automatic analysis of colorectal cancer tissue slides. The new model outperformed all predecessors in the classification of tissue microscopy samples.

News • Machine learning prediction

AI opens non-surgical way to detect brain cancer metastasis

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to detect the spread of metastatic brain cancer using MRI scans, offering insights into patients’ cancer without aggressive surgery.

News • Imitation learning

Learning surgery steps: Robot see, robot do

Imitation learning could open a new frontier in medical robotics: Researchers 'taught' a robot to mimic a surgical procedure by watching the surgeons' performance.

News • Predicting bloodstream infections

AI to tackle antimicrobial resistance, sepsis, in the ICU

UK scientists are harnessing the power of AI to assess the antimicrobial resistance of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) and identify sepsis-causing bloodstream infections.

News • New machine learning method

Seeing the beating heart with better MRI videos

Using smartly trained neural networks, researchers at TU Graz have succeeded in generating precise real-time images of the beating heart from just a few MRI measurement data.

Machine learning

News • Biomarker panel

News • Biomarker-agnostic detection

News • Gait biomechanics analysis

News • AI detects unseen connection

News • Neurosciences

News • Screening for specific pregnancy complications

News • Clinically validated framework

News • Risk estimation of progression in the knee

News • Machine learning analysis

Article • AI-powered prediction

News • Raman spectroscopy and interpretable machine learning

News • Proteomic-based score

News • Autonomous system trained on surgical videos

News • Photoacoustic computed tomography

News • Machine learning analysis

News • Classification of movement disorders

News • Combining spatial transcriptomics, pseudotime and machine learning

News • Machine learning analysis

News • Responsiveness of machine learning models

News • Deep and ensemble learning improve performance

News • Machine learning prediction

News • Imitation learning

News • Predicting bloodstream infections

News • New machine learning method

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