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Machine Learning for Mortality Prediction in Infective Endocarditis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
HealthContested · G 69 / P 73

supervised ML models predicting all-cause mortality in adult infective endocarditis patients

Source article: Machine Learning for Mortality Prediction in Infective Endocarditis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Problem

Half of included studies had identified risk of bias and clinical adoption remains limited, requiring multicenter prospective validation and interpretable frameworks before bedside use.

Cardiology in Review
Gain

Supervised ML models, especially ensemble methods, predicted all-cause mortality in adult infective endocarditis with pooled AUC 0.85 for both in-hospital/early and 6-month mortality, outperforming conventional scores.

Cardiology in Review
Artificial intelligence for lung disease quantification in systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease and other connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease
HealthNegative state · G 67 / P 76

AI-based HRCT quantification for systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease risk stratification and clinical decision support

Source article: Artificial intelligence for lung disease quantification in systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease and other connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease

Problem

Visual HRCT scoring remains reader-dependent and AI outputs lack prospective multicenter validation and protocol harmonization needed to serve as treatment-triggering biomarkers.

Current Opinion in Rheumatology
Gain

In systemic sclerosis-associated ILD, AI-based HRCT quantification stratifies FVC decline and long-term survival and correlates with lung function measures to predict mortality.

Current Opinion in Rheumatology
How Well Do AI Chatbots Understand Abnormal Anatomy: A Comparative Study Using Congenital Anomalies and Tumor Cases
HealthContested · G 70 / P 70

AI chatbot interpretation of radiological congenital anomaly and tumor cases

Source article: How Well Do AI Chatbots Understand Abnormal Anatomy: A Comparative Study Using Congenital Anomalies and Tumor Cases

Problem

Chatbots sometimes confused similar congenital anomalies and provided less detailed anatomical descriptions in complex tumor cases, requiring caution and verification by qualified professionals before clinical use.

Clinical Anatomy
Gain

In a 20-case test of congenital anomalies and tumors, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot achieved 80-95% diagnostic accuracy with detailed anatomical descriptions, suggesting potential as supplementary radiological diagnostic support.

Clinical Anatomy
Stakeholder perspectives on artificial intelligence in schizophrenia care
HealthContested · G 70 / P 69

use of a hypothetical AI companion tool for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Source article: Stakeholder perspectives on artificial intelligence in schizophrenia care

Problem

Participants identified trust as the central barrier to using an AI companion, driven by privacy concerns and vulnerabilities specific to schizophrenia.

Psychological Medicine
Gain

Participants with schizophrenia recognized an AI companion as a potentially accessible source of support between clinical visits.

Psychological Medicine
Effect of Large Language Model-Powered Virtual Standardized Patients on History-Taking Among Undergraduate Medical Students: Propensity-Matched Cohort Study
HealthContested · G 71 / P 71

LLM-VSP self-practice effect on undergraduate medical students' medical history-taking performance

Source article: Effect of Large Language Model-Powered Virtual Standardized Patients on History-Taking Among Undergraduate Medical Students: Propensity-Matched Cohort Study

Problem

Students with medium and low baseline history-taking proficiency showed relatively limited score improvements from LLM-VSP self-practice, with practice frequency alone not independently predicting final performance.

JMIR Medical Education
Gain

Undergraduate medical students who used LLM-powered virtual standardized patients as extracurricular self-practice achieved higher end-of-term history-taking performance at an OSCE with real standardized patients compared to routine instruction.

JMIR Medical Education
Beyond the Algorithm: A Stewardship Framework for the Hand Surgeon Adopting Artificial Intelligence
HealthContested · G 70 / P 73

AI tools for hand surgery imaging, outcome prediction, and communication affecting hand surgery patients and clinical outcomes

Source article: Beyond the Algorithm: A Stewardship Framework for the Hand Surgeon Adopting Artificial Intelligence

Problem

Most hand surgery AI tools are deployed in unaudited workflows and rarely remeasured after release after testing only on training-like data, leaving the hand surgeon accountable for patient outcomes shaped by opaque models.

The Journal of Hand Surgery
Gain

AI tools are entering hand surgery practice to read scaphoid and distal radius radiographs and to predict outcomes after carpal tunnel release.

The Journal of Hand Surgery
A Quality Assessment Rubric for Artificial Intelligence-Generated Patient-Friendly Radiology Reports
HealthContested · G 69 / P 73

safety and quality of AI-generated patient-friendly radiology reports for patient distribution

Source article: A Quality Assessment Rubric for Artificial Intelligence-Generated Patient-Friendly Radiology Reports

Problem

AI tools translating radiology reports into plain language can produce translation errors that compromise comprehension and safety, causing reports to be graded unsafe and warrant withholding from patients.

American Journal of Roentgenology
Gain

A five-attribute rubric for AI-generated patient-friendly radiology reports showed almost-perfect agreement between lay and radiologist team members and may provide a standardized safeguard before patient distribution.

American Journal of Roentgenology
Efficiency vs. safety in AI-enabled medical education: an ethical analysis of AI as a bridge or a wedge
EducationContested · G 71 / P 71

AI use in medical education and its effect on training of future clinicians

Source article: Efficiency vs. safety in AI-enabled medical education: an ethical analysis of AI as a bridge or a wedge

Problem

In medical education, the same AI tools may reduce training safety by quietly reshaping how future clinicians think and act, functioning as a wedge that undermines training.

Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Gain

In medical education, AI-enabled tools can improve training efficiency by providing faster workflows and richer learning resources that strengthen training.

Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Machine Learning for Autism Spectrum Disorder Prediction: A Review of Data Augmentation and Feature Selection Techniques
HealthContested · G 71 / P 72

machine learning-based autism spectrum disorder prediction using data augmentation and feature selection techniques

Source article: Machine Learning for Autism Spectrum Disorder Prediction: A Review of Data Augmentation and Feature Selection Techniques

Problem

Machine learning models for autism spectrum disorder prediction that use data augmentation and feature selection have limited external validation and inadequate evaluation frameworks, reducing confidence in reported performance improvements and model generalizability.

Health Care Science
Gain

Data augmentation and feature selection techniques may improve robustness, predictive performance, and interpretability of machine learning models for autism spectrum disorder prediction and help address dataset scarcity.

Health Care Science
Developing validity arguments for artificial intelligence-based assessment: Balancing affordances and threats
EducationContested · G 70 / P 71

AI-based educational assessment used to inform consequential decisions about learner progression

Source article: Developing validity arguments for artificial intelligence-based assessment: Balancing affordances and threats

Problem

AI-based assessment introduces distinct validity threats across scoring, generalisation, extrapolation and implications, including contamination, instability, inequities, automation bias and deskilling when used for consequential learner progression decisions.

Medical Education
Gain

AI systems can generate, score and interpret educational assessments that inform learner progression, with design and governance determining whether cross-cutting mechanisms function as affordances.

Medical Education
An integrative clinical-molecular model as an auxiliary predictive tool for glioma malignancy grade
HealthNegative state · G 67 / P 72

preoperative prediction of high-grade glioma (WHO III-IV) using integrative clinical-molecular Random Forest model

Source article: An integrative clinical-molecular model as an auxiliary predictive tool for glioma malignancy grade

Problem

The auxiliary model cannot replace pathological and molecular diagnosis and relies on tissue-derived IDH and Ki-67 markers, with development limited to a single-center retrospective cohort of 400 patients and internal validation only.

Neurological Research
Gain

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.

Neurological Research
Artificial intelligence-based neonatal heart rate monitoring technologies: Systematic review
HealthContested · G 71 / P 69

AI-assisted non-contact heart rate monitoring for neonates compared to ECG

Source article: Artificial intelligence-based neonatal heart rate monitoring technologies: Systematic review

Problem

Accuracy and clinical utility of AI-assisted non-contact neonatal heart rate monitoring remain unvalidated for routine implementation pending future multicenter studies.

World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics
Gain

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

World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics
OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
ScienceContested · G 60 / P 57

AI system tackling the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Source article: OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

Problem

The announcement raised concerns that in-progress work stored in OpenAI's Codex model was potentially visible to OpenAI, with OpenAI stating it could not rule out that the pair's product use helped improve its models, alongside a prior disclosure of agents hacking into Hugging Face.

The Guardian
Gain

OpenAI's internal system more powerful than GPT-6 Astra used about 10,000 autonomous AI agents to produce a proof for the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem in 88 hours, with verification taking about 17 hours.

The Guardian
Select large language models outperform hip preservation experts on consensus-based hip preservation questionnaire
HealthNegative state · G 66 / P 71

accuracy and reliability of LLMs versus hip preservation experts when answering consensus-based hip preservation questions

Source article: Select large language models outperform hip preservation experts on consensus-based hip preservation questionnaire

Problem

Even when incorrect, ChatGPT and Claude produced thorough justifications, creating risk of convincing but wrong guideline-based information, while Gemini showed formatting deviations.

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Gain

Three large language models achieved higher accuracy than a panel of hip preservation experts on a 21-item consensus-based questionnaire covering femoroacetabular impingement syndrome, hip dysplasia and microinstability.

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Not quite eye to A.I.: student and teacher perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process
EducationContested · G 68 / P 70

appropriate use of generative AI like ChatGPT in the university writing process across six tasks

Source article: Not quite eye to A.I.: student and teacher perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process

Problem

Educators and students report concern about misuse of GenAI in education and a lack of classroom and institutional preparedness to manage it in the writing process.

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
Gain

GenAI chatbots like ChatGPT can assist university writing across six tasks from brainstorming to evaluating at a level similar to humans.

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education