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Mapping artisanal and small-scale mines at large scale from space with deep learning.

PloS one
Artisanal and small-scale mines (asm) are on the rise. They represent a crucial source of wealth for numerous communities but are rarely monitored or regulated. The main reason being the unavailability of reliable information on the precise location ...

Revisiting the out of Africa event with a deep-learning approach.

American journal of human genetics
Anatomically modern humans evolved around 300 thousand years ago in Africa. They started to appear in the fossil record outside of Africa as early as 100 thousand years ago, although other hominins existed throughout Eurasia much earlier. Recently, s...

A Machine Learning Model for Evaluating Imported Disease Screening Strategies in Immigrant Populations.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Given the high prevalence of imported diseases in immigrant populations, it has postulated the need to establish screening programs that allow their early diagnosis and treatment. We present a mathematical model based on machine learning methodologie...

Development and evaluation of a machine learning-based point-of-care screening tool for genetic syndromes in children: a multinational retrospective study.

The Lancet. Digital health
BACKGROUND: Delays in the diagnosis of genetic syndromes are common, particularly in low and middle-income countries with limited access to genetic screening services. We, therefore, aimed to develop and evaluate a machine learning-based screening te...

Using machine learning and big data to explore the drug resistance landscape in HIV.

PLoS computational biology
Drug resistance mutations (DRMs) appear in HIV under treatment pressure. DRMs are commonly transmitted to naive patients. The standard approach to reveal new DRMs is to test for significant frequency differences of mutations between treated and naive...

Breast cancer risk prediction in African women using Random Forest Classifier.

Cancer treatment and research communications
INTRODUCTION: One of the most important steps in combating breast cancer is early and accurate diagnosis. Unfortunately, breast cancer is asymptomatic at the early stage, although some symptoms are presented at a later time, but at symptomatic stage ...

A Revised Model of Anatomically Modern Human Expansions Out of Africa through a Machine Learning Approximate Bayesian Computation Approach.

Genes
There is a wide consensus in considering Africa as the birthplace of anatomically modern humans (AMH), but the dispersal pattern and the main routes followed by our ancestors to colonize the world are still matters of debate. It is still an open ques...

Artificial intelligence provides greater accuracy in the classification of modern and ancient bone surface modifications.

Scientific reports
Bone surface modifications are foundational to the correct identification of hominin butchery traces in the archaeological record. Until present, no analytical technique existed that could provide objectivity, high accuracy, and an estimate of probab...