In 2018, PLOS Medicine enlisted the expert guidance of Guest Editors Suchi Saria, Atul Butte, and Aziz Sheikh to establish the journal's scope and standards for publishing machine learning research in medicine. The tangible result can be seen in our articles within the PLOS Collection Machine Learning in Health Biomedicine, which continues to expand as our sister journals publish related research.
Going forward, PLOS Medicine is committed to providing our general medical readership with comprehensive, rigorous coverage of machine learning-related developments, with further expert commentary, in order to support clinicians as they learn how to understand, develop and ultimately leverage machine learning to improve patient care.
In this month's Editorial, Saria, Butte, and Sheikh finish our year—but not our shared journey!—with an accessible and accurate portrayal of the current forefront of machine learning in clinical translation.
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Editorial
Better medicine through machine learning: What’s real, and what’s artificial?
PLOS Medicine: published December 31, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002721
Policy Forum
Defining rights-based indicators for HIV epidemic transition
PLOS Medicine: published December 21, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002720
Research Articles
Raltegravir-intensified initial antiretroviral therapy in advanced HIV disease in Africa: A randomised controlled trial
PLOS Medicine: published December 4, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002706
Metabolic syndrome in pregnancy and risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes: A prospective cohort of nulliparous women
PLOS Medicine: published December 4, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002710
Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies
PLOS Medicine: published December 11, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002680
Supermarket policies on less-healthy food at checkouts: Natural experimental evaluation using interrupted time series analyses of purchases
PLOS Medicine: published December 18, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002712
Effectiveness of a text-messaging-based smoking cessation intervention (“Happy Quit”) for smoking cessation in China: A randomized controlled trial
PLOS Medicine: published December 18, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002713
Effectiveness and treatment moderators of internet interventions for adult problem drinking: An individual patient data meta-analysis of 19 randomised controlled trials
PLOS Medicine: published December 18, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002714
Small for gestational age and risk of childhood mortality: A Swedish population study
PLOS Medicine: published December 18, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002717