Medical research

Benchmarking AI's ability to answer medical questions

A benchmark for assessing how well large language models (LLMs) can answer medical questions is presented in a paper published in Nature. The study, from Google Research, also introduces Med-PaLM, an LLM specialized for the ...

Genetics

MAPLE: A phylogenetic tool for pandemic-scale genome data

With the huge abundance of genomic data generated from life science experiments, processing large datasets remains a challenge in the field of bioinformatics. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the limited capabilities of existing ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Deep learning model IDs area subscore of palmoplantar pustulosis

A deep learning model can accurately evaluate the area subscore of the Palmoplantar Pustulosis Area and Severity Index (PPPASI), according to a study published online Feb. 23 in the Journal of Dermatology.

Radiology & Imaging

Resource-efficient automatic segmentation of medical images

The core benefits of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are weight sharing and that they can automatically detect important visual features. Minh H. Vu and his group found that CNNs are very efficient in automatically segmenting ...

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