Personalized Medicine

American College of Surgeons Develops Cancer Survival Prediction Tool

October 30, 2023 - According to research presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2023, a machine learning (ML) tool can accurately estimate patient-specific prognoses for thyroid, pancreatic, and breast cancer. Current methods to predict cancer patients’ survival rates rely mostly on cancer stage, which the researchers indicated...


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Precision Medicine Tool May Accurately Predict Bariatric Surgery Outcomes

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University at Buffalo (UB) have demonstrated that a tool originally designed to predict a patient’s risk level for various addictions using genetic and psychosocial factors...

Deep Learning Tool May Support Personalized Cancer Care

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have developed a deep learning (DL) model capable of predicting cancer-related protein fragments that may elicit an immune response, which may aid the advancement of personalized cancer...

Deep Learning Algorithm Predicts Need for Crohn’s Disease Therapy

by Shania Kennedy

A study published last month in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology demonstrated that a deep learning (DL) model can predict the need for biological therapy using capsule endoscopy (CE) videos of...

ML Provides Personalized Hypertension Treatment Recommendations

by Shania Kennedy

Boston University (BU) researchers have co-developed a machine learning (ML) model designed to provide personalized hypertension treatment recommendations and assist clinicians with choosing which...

Dartmouth Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence, Precision Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

Dartmouth launched its Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence (CPHAI) this week, which is set to advance interdisciplinary research into how artificial intelligence (AI) and biomedical...

Researchers Propose ChatGPT-Based Personalized Disease Burden Tool

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent article published in Cureus, researchers posited that combining ChatGPT with insights from the Global Burden of Disease study could help create an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted...

Precision Medicine Approach May Improve Prostate Cancer Screening

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Stanford Medicine have developed a precision medicine approach that may help flag and separate normal variations in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) caused by genetic factors unrelated...

Cedars-Sinai Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education

by Shania Kennedy

The Cedars-Sinai Department of Computational Biomedicine established the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education (CAIRE) this week to drive innovation in artificial intelligence (AI),...

Cedars-Sinai Develops AI to Predict Adverse Cardiac Events

by Shania Kennedy

Cedars-Sinai researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict a patient’s chance of adverse cardiac events, such as a heart attack, and demonstrate how that...

Researchers Leverage Generative AI to Improve Cancer Treatment Targets

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), UT Health San Antonio, and the University of Pittsburgh have developed a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to improve adaptive...

Indiana University Projects to Support Precision Medicine for Alzheimer’s

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine received a 5-year, $41 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund a study investigating the pathology of...

Mount Sinai Opens Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine (CEPM) hosted its grand opening last week, solidifying a partnership...

AI Prediction Tool Identifies Chemotherapy Drug Toxicity Risk

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Florida have created a predictive analytics tool capable of identifying acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients’ risk for complications from chemotherapy...

UPMC Explores Machine Learning’s Potential to Personalize HIV Testing

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent article published by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), Sarah Wheeler, PhD, an associate professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,...

AI Offers Personalized Care Recommendations to Curb Heart Disease Risk

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have validated a causal artificial intelligence model designed to identify a patient’s inherited risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and provide personalized recommendations for...

All of Us Research Program Returns Genetic Results to Participants

by Shania Kennedy

The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program announced that it has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants, detailing each...

Researchers Develop AI Clinical Decision Support Tool for Nutrition

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) clinical decision support tool designed to help clinicians discuss...

Machine-Learning Model Can Help Identify Ovarian Cancer Treatment Targets

by Shania Kennedy

A study published last month in Nature Metabolism shows that a machine learning (ML)-based computational platform can identify specific metabolic targets in ovarian cancer, which could be used in...

UCLA Leverages Genomic Data to Support Health Equity, Precision Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers analyzing genomic data from the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank have found a highly diverse patient population within the repository, and they plan to leverage the data to support...