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What the evidence says.What the public feels.

Ranks distinct AI gain and problem claims from the published record. Scores reward impact, independent source strength, scale, confidence, and recency.

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AI gains · 788

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GainHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Explainable ML models achieved near-perfect discrimination for breast cancer diagnosis on cytology data, with top models reaching 0.996 AUC and 98.25% accuracy, supporting use in resource-constrained diagnostic workflows.

On September 11, 2026, a peer-reviewed study in PLOS Digital Health reported an explainable AI framework for breast cancer diagnosis designed for underserved settings. Using 569 fine-needle aspirate specimens from the Wisconsin dataset, the authors benchmarked eight supervised classifiers with 10-fold cross-validation and a hold-out test set, then applied SHAP analysis to surface global and individual-level feature contributions.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-1071

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GainHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Adding 913 conditional-GAN simulated ganglionic tiles to 461 real ganglionic and 1374 real aganglionic FCM tiles improved a CNN's ability to discriminate ganglionic bowel on an independent real-image test set of 590 aganglionic and 198 ganglionic tiles, raising accuracy from 75% to 84% and sensitivity from 78% to 91% .

Researchers evaluated whether synthetic fluorescence confocal microscopy images generated by a conditional generative adversarial network could improve deep-learning detection of ganglionic bowel during surgery for Hirschsprung Disease. Using real intraoperative FCM tiles collected from November 2024 to November 2025, they compared CNNs trained on real data alone versus real data plus cGAN-simulated ganglionic tiles versus real data plus conventional augmentation, testing all models on an independent set of real tiles.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-1066

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GainHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65+ with ADRD hospitalized in 2023, greater hospital adoption of patient-related AI/ML tools was associated with lower odds of frequent hospitalizations, 30-day readmissions, and preventable acute hospitalizations, with inpatient risk prediction tools also linked to no

A 2023 cross-sectional study of 340,509 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 or older with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias examined whether hospital adoption of patient-related AI/ML tools was associated with inpatient utilization and spending, using four adoption indicators for predicting inpatient risks, identifying high-risk outpatients, monitoring health, and recommending treatments.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 15, 2026 · TRV-2026-1092

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GainHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

An AI system combining text normalisation with 1931 features maintained stable self-harm detection in prospective validation at its development metropolitan hospital, achieving PR AUC 0.84 over 329,655 triage notes in the following four years.

Researchers validated a previously developed AI system that detects self-harm in emergency department triage notes using extensive text normalisation and 1931 features. They tested it prospectively on 329,655 notes from the original major metropolitan hospital in Melbourne and externally on 316,877 notes from a regional hospital 150 km away covering 2012-2021.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Sep 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-1072

AI problems · 631

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Chi-squared selection with a neural network achieved the highest mean accuracy (74.78%; AUC 0.77).

Nottingham histological grading is central to breast cancer prognosis and treatment planning, but conventional pathological assessment is labor-intensive and subject to inter-observer variability. Radiomics and machine learning may support noninvasive preoperative grade prediction.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 23, 2026 · TRV-2026-0858

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ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Tacit rules are negatively associated with AI autonomy feasibility, constraining full replacement to 2.7% of tasks and leaving 11.0% AI immune in cultural and creative occupations.

Researchers analyzed 593 tasks across 126 occupations in the cultural and creative industries using GPT-4 generated synthetic annotations of Australian Skills Classification descriptions. They measured cognitive and behavioural rules and estimated AI autonomy feasibility and efficiency potential to map where human, AI, or hybrid carriers fit.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0693

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Patients classified as Severe profile with early onset, 73.3% co-occurring psychiatric conditions and intense craving had poorer 3-month outcomes with only 36.7% abstinence and steep return to use.

In a retrospective study of 102 patients at a tertiary care center in India, researchers used k-means clustering on eight biopsychosocial baseline variables to derive three AUD profiles. By the August 2026 publication date, they reported Late-Onset, High-Functioning, and Severe groups with differing 3-month abstinence rates corroborated by GGT levels and bootstrap-assessed cluster stability.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0687

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Probabilistic assessment of the sampled wells indicated high non-carcinogenic risk for children and infants, with 32.11% and 36.49% exceedance and fluoride identified as the dominant driver, alongside nitrate and fluoride above WHO guidelines at some sites.

On 2026-08-05, a peer-reviewed study reported analysis of 432 groundwater wells along Ghana's central coastal zone, combining hydrochemical indices with PCA, Self-Organising Maps and Monte Carlo probabilistic risk assessment. The work documented pronounced salinisation and mineralisation, with EC from 94.6 to 52,700 uS/cm and chloride up to 22,433 mg/l, and used machine learning to discriminate geogenic versus anthropogenic controls.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%92

Updated Aug 6, 2026 · TRV-2026-0668

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 2:20 PM