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Global health & medicine

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Human-in-the-loop reconsidered: Shadow use and reliance management in drug development.

Global health & medicine
This article examines the ethical governance of artificial intelligence (AI) use in drug development through joint principles of good AI practice issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). It argues...

Beyond consent: Reconstructing ethical justification in medical adaptive machine learning systems.

Global health & medicine
Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems (MAMLS) that continuously update their models using clinical data blur the conventional boundary between therapy and research, prompting the argument that their use should be classified as research and govern...

Clinical artificial intelligence (AI) in Japan: Regulatory pathways, domain-specific evidence, and its data infrastructure from an international perspective.

Global health & medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced rapidly across clinical domains, generating both a growing evidence base and dedicated regulatory frameworks for AI-based software as a medical device (SaMD). This review provides a comprehensive assessment o...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based pose estimation detects movements linked to unplanned tube removal in ICU patients.

Global health & medicine
Unplanned removal of life-sustaining tubes in intensive care units (ICUs) poses serious risks, yet existing monitoring methods relying on physical restraints have ethical and clinical drawbacks. Here we applied artificial intelligence (AI)-based pose...

Automated radiographic shoulder balance assessment in scoliosis via deep learning.

Global health & medicine
The objective of this study was to develop an automated deep learning-based method for the assessment of shoulder balance in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients using X-ray images in order to provide a reliable and efficient alternative to...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted diagnosis of skin diseases: From image classification to dermatology-specific multimodal clinical reasoning.

Global health & medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) in dermatology has moved beyond the early paradigm of single-image classification. Dermatological diagnosis is achieved based on morphology, distribution, symptoms, tactile findings, temporal evolution, patient history, h...

From companion technologies to social care infrastructure: A multi-level perspective on loneliness-related support in dementia care in an era of artificial intelligence (AI).

Global health & medicine
Loneliness and social isolation are important psychosocial concerns in dementia care, but they are difficult to address through pharmacological treatment or episodic social activities alone. Companion technologies, including socially assistive robots...

Japanese regulation and approval process for medical artificial intelligence (AI) as software as a medical device (SaMD): Current status and emerging challenges.

Global health & medicine
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has led to increasing adoption of AI-based software as a medical device (SaMD). This paper reviews the current regulatory and approval framework for AI-based SaMD in Japan and discusse...

Proactive adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the operations of Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA): Current initiatives, governance, and future perspectives.

Global health & medicine
The Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) continues to face increasing operational demands stemming from growing regulatory complexity, expanding data volumes, and evolving scientific and societal expectations. In this context, the approp...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted full-course case management for primary liver cancer: System design, preliminary implementation, and practical considerations.

Global health & medicine
Primary liver cancer presents substantial management challenges across the surgical trajectory, including high recurrence rates, prolonged rehabilitation, and fragmented post-discharge care. This correspondence presents a multidisciplinary physician-...