AI Predicts COVID-19 Risks, Severity, and Treatment in Hospitalized Patients

Using an AI-driven decision support system to predict the severity of COVID-19 and identify best interventions, researchers analyzed electronic health record data from 5,371 patients admitted to a South Florida hospital. The study specifically aimed to forecast the likelihood of patients requiring admission to an ICU, with or without mechanical ventilation, or an intermediate care unit (IMCU). The goal was to leverage these features to enable faster and more accurate forecasting of treatment plans, potentially preventing critical conditions from worsening.

From advancing X-rays to unlocking exascale: Argonne highlights from 2024

As the year comes to a close, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory reviews some of its most notable achievements of 2024.

Breaking Barriers: Study Uses AI to Interpret American Sign Language in Real-time

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures. Each image was annotated with 21 key landmarks on the hand, providing detailed spatial information about its structure and position. Combining MediaPipe and YOLOv8, a deep learning method they trained, with fine-tuning hyperparameters for the best accuracy, represents a groundbreaking and innovative approach that hasn’t been explored in previous research.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Physician-Scientists Develop Innovative Multimodal Machine Learning Model That Improves Prediction of Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment Options

New research presented during the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) reveals a new machine learning model that could change the way metastatic breast cancer is treated in the future. By combining clinical and genomic data, physician-scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) developed a tool that could help improve predictions of how people with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative (HR+/HER2-) metastatic breast cancer respond to CDK4/6 inhibitors, a class of oral medications that control cell division and are often prescribed in combination with hormone therapy to treat this subset of patients.

NATIONWIDE STUDY LOOKS AT WHEN AND WHERE EV OWNERS USE PUBLIC CHARGING STATIONS

Researchers at the University of Maryland are using supercomputers and machine learning methods to analyze a full year of real-time data collected from individual EV charging ports at more than 50,000 publicly available stations throughout the country. The primary focus of the study is to estimate demand and peak times at EV charging stations.

Two UC Irvine researchers named fellows by National Academy of Inventors

The National Academy of Inventors has named two University of California, Irvine researchers as fellows. Hamid Jafarkhani, Chancellor’s Professor of electrical engineering & computer science, was recognized for his pioneering contributions to signal processing for multi-antenna wireless communications systems.

The best AI strategy to recognize multiple objects in one image

Image classification is one of AI’s most common tasks, where a system is required to recognize an object from a given image. Yet real life requires us to recognize not a single standalone object but rather multiple objects appearing together in a given image.

This reality raises the question: what is the best strategy to tackle multi-object classification? The common approach is to detect each object individually and then classify them. But new research challenges this customary approach to multi-object classification tasks.

In an article published today in Physica A, researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel show how classifying objects together, through a process known as Multi-Label Classification (MLC), can surpass the common detection-based classification.

Analyzing multiple mammograms improves breast cancer risk prediction

A new method of analyzing mammograms — developed by researchers at WashU Medicine — identified individuals at high risk of developing breast cancer more accurately than the standard, questionnaire-based method did. The new method, powered by artificial intelligence, could help diagnose cancer earlier and guide recommendations for earlier screening, additional imaging or risk-reducing medications.

Dark matter, neutrinos and drug discovery: how AI is powering SLAC science and technology

Check out the second of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. Read part one here. In this part you’ll learn how AI is playing a key role in helping SLAC researchers find new galaxies and tiny neutrinos, and discover new drugs.

Taming big data and particle beams: how SLAC researchers are pushing AI to the edge

Check out the first of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. In this part you’ll learn how SLAC researchers collaborate to develop AI tools to make molecular movies, speeding up the discovery process in the era of big data.

MERMAID Named Winner of 2024-2025 Amazon Web Services IMAGINE Grant for Nonprofits

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today announced it has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE Grant, a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

Energy Performance of Building Refurbishments: Predictive and Prescriptive AI-based Machine Learning Approaches

Abstract The energy performance (EP) of buildings is critical for European governments to meet their decarbonization targets by 2050. In the context of European Union (EU) policies, which subsidize citizen-led building renovations, it is imperative to ascertain the efficacy of…

Dragon 5 unleashed: charting new frontiers in earth science

The journal Geo-Spatial Information Science will soon release a special issue showcasing the mid-term achievements of the China-Europe Earth Observation project, “Dragon 5.” Launched in July 2020, the initiative has made significant strides in Earth sciences, fostering cross-border collaboration and advancing the use of satellite data.

Deciphering city skies: AI unveils GNSS error identification

Faced with the persistent challenge of Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) errors in urban Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) navigation, researchers have introduced an innovative solution powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM), this method analyzes multiple GNSS signal features to accurately identify and differentiate NLOS errors.

Neuro-oncology experts reveal how to use AI to improve brain cancer diagnosis, monitoring, treatment

An international team of neuro-oncology researchers and clinicians has released new recommendations for good clinical practice regarding the use of artificial intelligence methods to more accurately diagnose, monitor and treat brain cancer.

Media Tip: Cyberthreats are growing – so are patents for technology to combat them

Patent data analysis highlights the leading companies in cybersecurity innovations At a time when public trust has been undermined by strings of cyberattacks and cyber spying, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services – the industry’s most trusted patent data provider – has…

Flow of the future: AI models tackle complex particle drag coefficients

Researchers have made a groundbreaking advance in fluid dynamics, using machine learning to accurately predict the drag coefficients of complex-shaped particles. This technological leap promises to significantly enhance our understanding of how particles behave in fluid flows, a key aspect in various industrial and environmental processes.

Everything you always wanted to know about large language models for science (but were afraid to ask)

Large language models are changing the way that people create and communicate, but they can also change the way we do science. Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory hope to demystify these tools and share how they’re shaping future research.

AI model predicts patients at most risk of complication during treatment for advanced kidney failure

A study led by the University of Portsmouth in England and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHUT) has developed an AI model to predict which patients are most at risk of their blood pressure dropping during dialysis; a condition known as intradialytic hypotension (IDH).

Implementing medical imaging AI: issues to consider

As AI is deployed in clinical centers across the U.S., one important consideration is to assure that models are fair and perform equally across patient groups and populations. To better understand the fairness of medical imaging AI, a team of researchers trained over 3,000 models spanning multiple model configurations, algorithms, and clinical tasks.

Inaugural summit to explore artificial intelligence

A new virtual conference will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can help health care providers and scientists efficiently analyze vast amounts of data and make more informed decisions, the Endocrine Society announced today.

Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect with Their World

Researchers explored how infants act purposefully by attaching a colorful mobile to their foot and tracking movements with a Vicon 3D motion capture system. The study tested AI’s ability to detect changes in infant movement patterns. Findings showed that AI techniques, especially the deep learning model 2D-CapsNet, effectively classified different stages of behavior. Notably, foot movements varied significantly. Looking at how AI classification accuracy changes for each baby gives researchers a new way to understand when and how they start to engage with the world.

Ceevra 3D Models Improve Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Prostate Cancer Surgery

In a multisite randomized controlled trial published in JAMA Network Open in September 2024, the use of Ceevra 3D models in robotic prostatectomy procedures were shown to reduce risk of cancer recurrence, improve functional outcomes, and improve rates of trifecta outcomes.

Using AI to prevent ruptured brain aneurysms

Bioengineering Ph.D. student Holly Berns won a grant from the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to study how AI and other new technologies can change how aneurysms are discovered and treated. Her project will use AI and machine learning to examine how arteries leading to the brain are tilted and whether that tilt contributes to the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms.

FAU Engineering Professor Achieves Milestone as Highly Cited Google Scholar

Dr. Khoshgoftaar’s scientific publications have garnered more than 63,500 citations during his distinguished career at FAU (1985 to present), yielding a Google Scholar h-index of 95.

Notre Dame researchers create new tool to analyze embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings in Chicago

The impact of embodied carbon in the built environment has been difficult to assess, due to a lack of data. To address that knowledge gap, Ming Hu, the associate dean for research, scholarship and creative work in Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, and Siavash Ghorbany, a Notre Dame graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, have created a new tool to analyze the embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings in Chicago. Their recently published research identifies 157 different architectural housing types in the city and provides the first ever visual analysis tool to evaluate embodied carbon at a granular level and to help inform policymakers seeking to strategically plan for urban carbon mitigation.

$1.8M NIH Grant to FAU Engineering Fuels Quest to Decode Human Evolution

FAU has received a five-year NIH grant to further research on designing and applying statistical methods to identify regions of the genome affected by natural selection, which is an important evolutionary force that enables humans to adapt to new environments and fight disease-causing pathogens.

Machine learning predicts which patients will continue taking opioids after hand surgery

A machine learning algorithm performs well in predicting the risk of persistent opioid use after hand surgery, reports a study in the August issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Illinois researchers develop near-infrared spectroscopy models to analyze corn kernels, biomass

In the agricultural and food industry, determining the chemical composition of raw materials is important for production efficiency, application, and price. Traditional laboratory testing is time-consuming, complicated, and expensive. New research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrates that near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and machine learning can provide quick, accurate, and cost-effective product analysis.