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AI skin cancer diagnosis falls short of expert physicians in real-world assessment

AI skin cancer diagnosis falls short of expert physicians in real-world assessment

The word Translate written on a blue key on a white keyboard to illustrate the finding that bilingual consent forms boost SACT understanding in patients with limited English proficiency

Bilingual consent forms boost SACT understanding in patients with limited English proficiency

Digital interface displaying the words ‘AI Medical Imaging’ with medical scans, a human body outline, and brain graphics on a blue high-tech background, representing artificial intelligence in cancer diagnostics and the SMMILe algorithm

Mapping tumours with greater precision using SMMILe: expert commentary

MRI scanner with overlaid digital interface graphics, charts, and data visualizations, representing AI-assisted medical imaging and diagnostics for prostate cancer

Oliver Hulson on AI-supported prostate cancer diagnoses: quick-fire interview

Novel compact DT imaging in inflammatory arthritis showing comparative imaging of ex-vivo human hips

Novel compact DT imaging in inflammatory arthritis: a pathway to a first-in-human trial

A dermatologist in consultation with a female patient with her pointing at a picture of a mole on a laptop screen to illustrate promise for AI in melanoma diagnosis but a need for more research

AI shows promise for melanoma diagnosis but evidence falls short, review finds

A volume dial turned down to the lowest level

Improving staff wellbeing and patient recovery through silent wards

A mammogram image showing left and right breasts to illustrate the finding that AI-supported mammography screening demonstrates non-inferior interval cancer rates in breast cancer

AI-supported mammography screening demonstrates non-inferior interval cancer rates

An iPhone outline with a no smoking sign on the screen and a green circle with lungs in it underneath it to illustrate an mHealth smoking cessation intervention improving TB outcomes

mHealth smoking cessation intervention significantly improves TB outcomes, study finds

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A roadmap to personalising perioperative care in colorectal cancer through AI

Mr Vanash Patel and his colleagues at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust standing in front of their rabot for colorectal cancer robotic surgery

Robotic surgery in colorectal cancer: real-world evidence and performance insights

A close-up of a patient and a doctor in scrubs looking over a patient information leaflet to illustrate the finding that AI successfully simplifies complex interventional radiology information for patients

AI successfully simplifies complex radiology information for patients, study finds

A digital illustration of a human body with the gastrointestinal tract highlighted in blue and two circles overlayed showing a healthy intestine in one and a coeliac disease affected intestine in the other to illustrate a new coeliac disease diagnostic pathway that utilises AI

Bringing AI into the coeliac disease diagnostic pathway: expert commentary

A computer-generated 3D illustration of a blue glowing warning symbol on a circuit board with a purple to blue graded background representing machine learning being able to identify CAD risk and refine patient selection in CCTA

Can machine learning identify CAD risk and refine patient selection in CCTA?

A digital illustration of a glowing blue clock on a grid background with the hands pointing to 12:05 and the edge of the clock between 12 and 3 broken into pieces to illustrate AI admin support via Microsoft Copilot saving healthcare staff time and increasing productivity

AI admin support could save healthcare staff 43 minutes per day, pilot suggests

Digital illustration of a human figure with arms outstretched with a glowing red circle in the centre surrounded by digital symbols and data graphics to represent a deep learning tool enhancing metastatic risk prediction in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Deep learning tool enhances metastatic risk prediction in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

A mother and daughter sat on a sofa smiling while looking at a smartphone being held by the daughter to illustrate the discovery that an at-home monitoring app can improve asthma control and reduce hospitalisations in children

At-home monitoring app improves asthma control and reduces hospitalisation risk in children

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