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Exploring new scientific innovations in combating suicide: a stress detection wristband.

The Pan African medical journal
There is a silent pandemic of suicides around the world, with an exponential increase in suicidality and chronic suicidal ideations. The exact global estimates cannot be accurately ascertained, but analysis will put it at more than a million annually...

Assessment of Knowledge, Practice, Perception, and Expectations of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Care among Staff of a Tertiary Hospital.

Ethiopian journal of health sciences
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. AI technology has wide applications in biomedicine and has real practical benefits in many medical applications. The ...

Artificial Intelligence and Cardiology Practice in Nigeria: Are We Ready?

Nigerian journal of clinical practice
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. As cardiovascular risk factors continuously rise to pandemic levels, there is intense pressure worldwide to improve cardiac care in preventive cardiology, cardio-diagnostics, therapeuti...

Explainability of artificial neural network in predicting career fulfilment among medical doctors in developing nations: Applicability and implications.

Social science & medicine (1982)
BACKGROUND: Career fulfilment among medical doctors is crucial for job satisfaction, retention, and healthcare quality, especially in developing nations with challenging healthcare systems. Traditional career guidance methods struggle to address the ...

Geographic inequities in neonatal survival in Nigeria: a cross-sectional evidence from spatial and artificial neural network analyses.

Journal of biosocial science
This study was conducted to provide empirical evidence of geographical variations of neonatal mortality and its associated social determinants with a view to improving neonatal survival at the subnational level in Nigeria. With a combination of spati...

Artificial intelligence guided screening for cardiomyopathies in an obstetric population: a pragmatic randomized clinical trial.

Nature medicine
Nigeria has the highest reported incidence of peripartum cardiomyopathy worldwide. This open-label, pragmatic clinical trial randomized pregnant and postpartum women to usual care or artificial intelligence (AI)-guided screening to assess its impact ...

Pharmacy students' perception and knowledge of chat-based artificial intelligence tools at a Nigerian University.

BMC medical education
BACKGROUND: Chat-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, are becoming integral to various aspects of pharmacy education. However, their integration into the curriculum faces challenges due to students' varying levels of knowledge a...

AI-imputed and crowdsourced price data show strong agreement with traditional price surveys in data-scarce environments.

PloS one
Continuous access to up-to-date food price data is crucial for monitoring food security and responding swiftly to emerging risks. However, in many food-insecure countries, price data is often delayed, lacks spatial detail, or is unavailable during cr...

Urban change detection: assessing biophysical drivers using machine learning and Google Earth Engine.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Urban areas are experiencing rapid transformations, driven by population growth, economic development, and policy changes. Understanding and monitoring these dynamic changes is crucial for sustainable urban planning and management. This study leverag...

Explainable AI for enhanced accuracy in malaria diagnosis using ensemble machine learning models.

BMC medical informatics and decision making
BACKGROUND: Malaria, an infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites belonging to the Plasmodium genus, remains a significant public health challenge, with African regions bearing the heaviest burden. Machine learning techniques have shown great ...