Category: <span>Artificial Intelligence</span>

Home / Artificial Intelligence
Using a generative AI assistant to interpret pharmacogenetic test results
Post

Using a generative AI assistant to interpret pharmacogenetic test results

by Molly Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainGenetic test results can be hard to understand and interpret for people without a background in genetics. Investigators at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center are studying whether an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant could be beneficial in answering questions about these results for...

Google launches AI-backed search-and-answer tool for doctors
Post

Google launches AI-backed search-and-answer tool for doctors

Rebecca PiferSenior Reporter Justin Sullivan via Getty Images Dive Brief:Google Cloud has launched a tool backed by generative artificial intelligence that allows clinicians to search for information across patient notes, scanned documents and other clinical data.That tool, called Vertex AI Search for Healthcare, is now available for Google Cloud customers, the tech giant announced Tuesday...

Medical AI tool gets human thumbs-up in first study
Post

Medical AI tool gets human thumbs-up in first study

by Jim W. Harper, University of Florida Develop a clinical generative large language model, GatorTronGPT, for biomedical natural language processing, clinical text generation, and health care text evaluation. a Train GatorTronGPT from scratch using GPT-3 architecture with up to 20 billion parameters. b Solve biomedical relation extraction and question answering using a unified P-tuning base...

How artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back
Post

How artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back

by Stanford University Medical Center A research participant in the Dr. Edward Chang’s study of speech neuroprostheses, is connected to computers that translate her brain signals as she attempts to speak into the speech and facial movements of an avatar on Monday, May 22, 2023, in El Cerrito, Calif. At left is UCSF clinical research...

ChatGPT shows ‘impressive’ accuracy in clinical decision making
Post

ChatGPT shows ‘impressive’ accuracy in clinical decision making

by Mass General Brigham Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham has found that ChatGPT was about 72% accurate in overall clinical decision making, from coming up with possible diagnoses to making final diagnoses and care management decisions. The large-language model (LLM) artificial intelligence chatbot performed equally well in both...

Post

Artificial Intelligence tools shed light on millions of proteins

UNIVERSITY OF BASEL IMAGE: A SNAPSHOT OF THE INTERACTIVE NETWORK “PROTEIN UNIVERSE ATLAS”. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, BIOZENTRUM A research team at the University of Basel and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics uncovered a treasure trove of uncharacterised proteins. Embracing the recent deep learning revolution, they discovered hundreds of new protein families and even...

Post

Cigna Accused of Using AI, Not Doctors, to Deny Claims: Lawsuit

Steph Weber August 04, 2023 A new lawsuit alleges that Cigna uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to inappropriately deny “hundreds or thousands” of claims at a time, bypassing legal requirements to complete individual claim reviews and forcing providers to bill patients in full. In a complaint filed last week in California’s eastern district court, plaintiffs and Cigna...

Post

AI Model Can Help Determine Where a Patient’s Cancer Arose

Predictions from the OncoNPC model could enable doctors to choose targeted treatments for difficult-to-treat tumors. For a small percentage of cancer patients, doctors are unable to determine where their cancer originated. This makes it much more difficult to choose a treatment for those patients, because many cancer drugs are typically developed for specific cancer types. A...

Harnessing artificial intelligence for better patient care
Post

Harnessing artificial intelligence for better patient care

by Jennifer Monahan, Carnegie Mellon University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) provides one of the most promising—and fraught—advancements in the ever-evolving landscape of the health care sector. Electronic records let physicians access patient information more easily. Phone apps and web-based tools allow users to schedule appointments and check test results online....

AI could shorten the diagnostic journey of millions suffering from endometriosis
Post

AI could shorten the diagnostic journey of millions suffering from endometriosis

by University of Surrey Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The quality of life of millions suffering from endometriosis—a painful disease where sensitive tissue grows outside of the uterus—could be improved by a new artificial intelligence (AI) system with technology developed by the University of Adelaide in South Australia, in partnership with researchers from the University of Surrey. The IMAGENDO...