November 13, 2018
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11/13/2018
Research ARticle
Adnan Custovic and colleagues demonstrate that combinations of allergen sensitivities in children can be used to predict concurrent asthma diagnosis. Read the Author Summary, or see more at the Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine page.
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Browse Issues 2004 – 2018
11/13/2018
Perspective
In their Perspective, Ara Darzi and Hutan Ashrafian give us a tour of the future policymaker's machine learning toolkit. Read research on Machine Learning for Health and Biomedicine in this month's special issue.
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11/08/2018
Research Article
In a phase 2a trial, Raphael Landovitz and colleagues investigate the safety of injectable cabotegravir in HIV-uninfected people. Read the Author Summary.
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11/08/2018
Research ARticle
Kathleen Alexander & colleagues determine effects of river flood height, water quality & amount of suspended solids in river water in Botswana in response to climate change & weather variability, & the resultant cases of diarrhoea in children under 5. Read the Author Summary, or the Climate Change and Health collection.
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11/06/2018
Research Article
This month's special issue launches with research from Yizhi Liu and colleagues, who report a Random Forest algorithm that predicts high myopia up to age 18. Read the Author Summary.
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11/06/2018
Research Article
Eric Oermann and colleagues ask whether DL-based models for pneumonia detection perform well in external validation and probe the role of hospital system–specific confounding. Read the Author Summary or see the rest of the special issue on Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine.
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11/06/2018
Perspective
Effy Vayena & colleagues argue machine learning in medicine must offer data protection, transparency, & accountability. Check out the Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine special issue.
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11/01/2018
Research Article
Stig Bojesen & colleagues highlight the increased risk of future infection or death for those with lymphopenia using data from a large Danish cohort. Read the Author Summary.
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10/31/2018
Research Article
Roy Burstein & colleagues present their method for estimating age-specific child mortality. Read the Author Summary.
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10/30/2018
Editorial
Hannah Leslie & colleagues of the High-Quality Health Commission discuss the findings from their report.
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PLOS's cross-journal special issue devoted to the modern statistical modeling techniques. Guest Edited by Atul Butte, Suchi Saria, and Aziz Sheikh.
Machine Learning in PLOS ONE by Siamak Yousefi & colleagues.
David R Raleigh & colleagues for the Machine Learning PLOS ONE collection.
Daswin De Silva & colleagues in PLOS ONE.
Read the original Call for Papers at the Speaking of Medicine blog.
PLOS Medicine's special issue devoted to the health impacts of climate change, Guest Edited by Jonathan Patz and Madeleine Thomson.
A global forum for research responding to the impacts of climate change.
In an Editorial, guest editors Jonathan Patz & Madeleine Thompson summarize key issues & describe the significance of research studies in the Collection.
Yuming Guo & coll. present a modelling study in which climate change-associated mortality is predicted in a large number of countries. Read the Author Summary.
Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent & coll. document the detrimental effects of heatwaves on cognition. Read the Author Summary.
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