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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)

A Random Forest model integrating age, KPS, tumor diameter, NLR, AGR, IDH status and Ki-67 achieved AUC 0.864 training and 0.820 validation to assist preoperative assessment of high-grade glioma.

On 2026-09-08, a peer-reviewed study reported development of an integrative clinical-molecular model for glioma malignancy grading using 400 patients from a single-center retrospective cohort. Using LASSO and machine learning, the authors built a Random Forest classifier based on seven predictors including age, KPS, tumor diameter, inflammatory ratios, IDH status and Ki-67, achieving AUC 0.864 in training and 0.820 in validation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-1025

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

AI-assisted non-contact heart rate monitoring provides accurate, safe, and efficient neonatal assessment with strong correlation to ECG and rapid signal acquisition.

A systematic review covering January 2013 to June 2025 examined non-contact and AI-assisted neonatal heart rate monitoring versus conventional ECG. It found a progressive shift toward camera-based photoplethysmography, thermal imaging, and AI-enhanced multimodal systems that showed strong correlation with ECG, rapid acquisition, and better robustness to motion and lighting.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-1024

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

Dynamic machine learning models using vital signs, lab trends and unstructured data can detect sepsis-related deterioration hours before clinical decompensation in critically ill cancer patients, supporting a shift from reactive to predictive onco-critical care.

This peer-reviewed review examines how artificial intelligence could change onco-critical care, focusing on early sepsis detection and dynamic mortality prediction for critically ill cancer patients whose complex physiology limits traditional scores like APACHE II and SOFA.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-1023

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

Automation and AI applied to ventilator management support waveform analysis, asynchrony detection, and weaning-readiness prediction to enable more individualized lung-protective care within predefined safety limits.

Published September 9, 2026, this peer-reviewed review outlines a pragmatic framework for physiology-guided mechanical ventilation that combines advanced monitoring, proportional assist modes, and bounded automation. It notes that automation and artificial intelligence are increasingly used for waveform analysis, asynchrony detection, and weaning prediction within predefined safety limits.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 9, 2026 · TRV-2026-1022

AI problems · 631

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ProblemPolicy· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Personal-data-driven algorithmic targeting and other manipulative design features like infinite scrolling directly cause primary harms of manipulation, including hijacking attention, overriding user autonomy, and engineering addiction.

Published July 6 2026, this law review article argues that Section 230 and the First Amendment do not categorically immunize digital platforms for harms caused by their own design choices. It proposes a typology separating direct primary harms from design decisions from secondary harms from user content and tertiary harms, focusing on personal-data-driven algorithmic targeting and dark patterns like infinite scrolling.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0695

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

ChatGPT-5.0 did not achieve the highest overall classification accuracy and had lower specificity than XGBoost, indicating it missed the top performance for correctly identifying non-extraction cases.

A comparative study published August 7, 2026 evaluated ChatGPT-5.0 against five supervised machine learning algorithms for orthodontic extraction decisions. Using 520 cases (42.88% extraction, 57.12% non-extraction) and 23 clinical, cephalometric and photographic variables, with expert consensus as reference, ChatGPT-5.0 achieved 75.77% accuracy and 76.68% sensitivity under 5-fold cross-validation, compared to 78.08% accuracy for XGBoost.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0689

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Machine learning's black-box nature has hindered clinical adoption of mortality prediction models for non-dialysis CKD despite their clinical importance.

Researchers developed and validated an interpretable machine learning model to predict 5-year all-cause mortality in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease using data from 1,858 patients in the KNOW-CKD prospective cohort, with 94 deaths observed. The CatBoost model achieved AUC 0.813 versus 0.747 for logistic regression, and a simplified version using age, eGFR, albumin, urine protein-to-creatinine ratio, and total calcium retained AUC 0.795 in an external cohort of 348 patients.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0688

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI tools used in healthcare can make errors that result in patient harm, with responsibility difficult to assign because decisions are distributed across human and technological agents.

The peer-reviewed article examines responsibility gaps when AI tools in healthcare cause patient harm. It notes that traditional models struggle because decisions are spread across clinicians, developers, institutions and the AI systems themselves.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0686

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 16, 2026, 1:57 AM