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Established machine learning matches tabular foundation models in clinical predictions
A new benchmark shows that expensive tabular foundation models offer almost no performance advantage...

What your retina says about your heart
An AI model that calculates biological age from a simple eye photo could shift...

Machine learning for risk stratification of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: Enhancing clinical efficiency in low-resource antenatal care in Tanzania
A new algorithm catches every high-risk pregnancy case in Tanzania, but its high false-alarm...

When AI Bots Negotiate Your Medical Care
The shift from chatbots that answer questions to autonomous agents that execute medical tasks...

Text-image pairing improves brain tumor MRI classification
Adding radiology text to visual AI models stops them from failing when hyperparameters change.

Using the ear to stop brain spasms
A non-invasive ear clip could replace risky brain surgeries for patients recovering from aneurysms.

AI analyzes entire endoscopy cases for gastric cancer
A new foundation model bypasses cherry-picked images to evaluate gastric cancer risk using every...

What the First FDA-Cleared LLM Actually Does
The FDA just cleared its first patient-facing generative AI tool, but the algorithm is...

A foundation model of wearable pulse oximetry reveals physiological signatures of health and cardiometabolic risk
A new foundation model shows that overnight pulse oximetry data contains deep physiological signatures...
