NPJ digital medicine
May 10, 2025
Clinical validation studies are important to translate artificial intelligence (AI) technology in healthcare but may be underperformed in Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS). This scoping review examined deep learning publications in OHNS bet...
NPJ digital medicine
May 9, 2025
Accurate medical decision-making is critical for both patients and clinicians. Patients often struggle to interpret their symptoms, determine their severity, and select the right specialist. Simultaneously, clinicians face challenges in integrating c...
NPJ digital medicine
May 9, 2025
Commissioning of innovations in healthcare is a complex socio-technical process, ideally informed by high quality evidence. However, evidence is not always prepared and presented in a format usable for commissioning decisions. Agile methodology, comb...
NPJ digital medicine
May 8, 2025
AI cancer detection models require calibration to attain the desired balance between cancer detection rate (CDR) and false positive rate. In this study, we simulate the impact of six types of mismatches between the calibration population and the clin...
NPJ digital medicine
May 8, 2025
Critical findings in radiology reports are life threatening conditions that need to be communicated promptly to physicians for timely management of patients. Although challenging, advancements in natural language processing (NLP), particularly large ...
NPJ digital medicine
May 8, 2025
Speech dysarthria is a key symptom of neurological conditions like ALS, yet existing AI models designed to analyze it from audio signal rely on handcrafted features with limited inference performance. Deep learning approaches improve accuracy but lac...
NPJ digital medicine
May 6, 2025
There is a growing recognition of the need for clinical trials to safely and effectively deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical settings. We introduce dynamic deployment as a framework for AI clinical trials tailored for the dynamic nature o...
NPJ digital medicine
May 6, 2025
Clinical trials are an essential component of drug development for new cancer treatments, yet the information required to determine a patient's eligibility for enrollment is scattered in large amounts of unstructured text. Genomic biomarkers are espe...
NPJ digital medicine
May 5, 2025
Despite significant advances, the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease remain challenging, especially for ischemic heart disease (IHD). Current clinical decision-making relies heavily on physician expertise, guideline-directed therapie...
NPJ digital medicine
May 5, 2025
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) causes significant morbidity/mortality and timely diagnosis often via ultrasound is critical. However, the shortage of trained ultrasound providers has been an ongoing challenge. Recently, Speranza and colleagues (2025) dem...