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Evaluating the performance of artificial intelligence in summarizing pre-coded text to support evidence synthesis: a comparison between chatbots and humans.

BMC medical research methodology
BACKGROUND: With the rise of large language models, the application of artificial intelligence in research is expanding, possibly accelerating specific stages of the research processes. This study aims to compare the accuracy, completeness and releva...

Development of time to event prediction models using federated learning.

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BACKGROUND: In a wide range of diseases, it is necessary to utilize multiple data sources to obtain enough data for model training. However, performing centralized pooling of multiple data sources, while protecting each patients' sensitive data, can ...

Comparison of methods for tuning machine learning model hyper-parameters: with application to predicting high-need high-cost health care users.

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BACKGROUND: Supervised machine learning is increasingly being used to estimate clinical predictive models. Several supervised machine learning models involve hyper-parameters, whose values must be judiciously specified to ensure adequate predictive p...

Streamlining systematic reviews with large language models using prompt engineering and retrieval augmented generation.

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BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews (SRs) are essential to formulate evidence-based guidelines but require time-consuming and costly literature screening. Large Language Models (LLMs) can be a powerful tool to expedite SRs.

Utilizing Large language models to select literature for meta-analysis shows workload reduction while maintaining a similar recall level as manual curation.

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BACKGROUND: Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT showed great potential in aiding medical research. A heavy workload in filtering records is needed during the research process of evidence-based medicine, especially meta-analysis. However, few st...

An investigation into the impact of temporality on COVID-19 infection and mortality predictions: new perspective based on Shapley Values.

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INTRODUCTION: Machine learning models have been employed to predict COVID-19 infections and mortality, but many models were built on training and testing sets from different periods. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of temporali...

Combining machine learning and dynamic system techniques to early detection of respiratory outbreaks in routinely collected primary healthcare records.

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BACKGROUND: Methods that enable early outbreak detection represent powerful tools in epidemiological surveillance, allowing adequate planning and timely response to disease surges. Syndromic surveillance data collected from primary healthcare encount...

Using artificial intelligence for systematic review: the example of elicit.

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BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly being used to assist researchers with various research tasks, particularly in the systematic review process. Elicit is one such tool that can generate a summary of the question asked, se...

Application of causal forests to randomised controlled trial data to identify heterogeneous treatment effects: a case study.

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BACKGROUND: Classical approaches to subgroup analysis in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to identify heterogeneous treatment effects (HTEs) involve testing the interaction between each pre-specified possible treatment effect modifier and the trea...

Externally validated and clinically useful machine learning algorithms to support patient-related decision-making in oncology: a scoping review.

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BACKGROUND: This scoping review systematically maps externally validated machine learning (ML)-based models in cancer patient care, quantifying their performance, and clinical utility, and examining relationships between models, cancer types, and cli...