Others combine medical and demographic information to recommend a specific diagnostic test, or produce a risk score that helps determine whether a patient is a good candidate for a particular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI is increasingly finding its way into healthcare decisions, from diagnostics to treatment decisions to robotic surgery. As I’ve ...

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Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the analysis of medical image data. For example, algorithms based on deep learning can determine the location and size of tumors. This is the ...

While it's true that “racism” has left its fingerprints over medicine, STAT recently began a new investigative series looking at racial bias baked into the clinical algorithms used by physicians. As ...

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

A widely used algorithm that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest black patients, amplifying long-standing racial ...

Medical algorithms are used across the health-care spectrum to diagnose disease, offer prognoses, monitor patients’ health and assist with administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling. But the ...

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