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In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: cat moves to top of pet H-index leaderboard; AI predicts rogue waves at sea; comparing preventive strategies for HIV; AI-assisted MRI scans for breast cancer; adding context for clinical trial demographics; pursuing equity in AI; checking back in on AI self-regulation, one year later; learning to spot predatory research conferences; caution needed when using point-and-click sample size generators; much more: https://lnkd.in/gdHcxacn

In a commentary published by the North Carolina Medical Journal, Mary E. Klotman, MD, Duke University’s associate vice president for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, and Michael Pencina, PhD, Duke Health’s chief data scientist and vice dean for data science, describe how academic medical centers can maximize their potential and take a leading role in the responsible implementation of artificial intelligence in health care. Duke AI Health https://lnkd.in/ehTTny2C

🖊 ⭐ Foundations of Scientific Writing is back! This workshop series by Duke AI Health and #DukeCTSI is designed for staff at any level to gain experience in scientific writing. No prior experience is needed, and it's FREE. This course consists of five virtual sessions from September through November and one in-person presentation in December. We welcome staff from any academic institution in the Triangle! Staff in the the first cohort are welcome to reenroll. 📆 September-December 📍 Virtual & in-person ➡ duke.is/v/f7qn North Carolina Central University | North Carolina State University | Durham Technical Community College | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Duke University

In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: language completeness and LLM capabilities; open foundation models, risk, and the value chain; CAR-T for autoimmune diseases; editing the gut microbiome in vivo; international medical graduates face roadblocks in US; what should publishers do when a paper is retracted?; nurses “collaborate” with LLMs; the role of academic medical centers in health AI adoption and oversight; Human Genome Project under the microscope; much more: https://lnkd.in/e63TbsSh

New at North Carolina Medical Journal: an invited commentary by Duke University School of Medicine Dean Mary E. Klotman M.D. and Duke Health Chief Data Scientist Michael Pencina outlines the critical role that academic medical centers are poised to play as health AI is integrated into multiple facets of patient care, healthcare system operations, and medical education: https://lnkd.in/ehTTny2C

In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: what we mean when we talk about AI; links between race and air pollution mortality; concerns over lack of access to cardiologists, obstetrics; ChatGPT for literature reviews; an LLM tailored for mobile use; FTC turns critical eye on PBMs; coping with the mental health crisis in academic science; AI supremacy for certain tasks may be more vulnerable than thought; much more: https://lnkd.in/ed6CGVpn

Please join us in congratulating Duke AI Health Director of Data Science Benjamin Goldstein on his recent appointment to the position of Division Chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Duke School of Medicine's Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics! Dr. Goldstein's research focuses on the meaningful use of data from patient electronic health records for predictive modeling and causal inference. https://lnkd.in/ekRDiqQD

In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: the value of clinical humility in the face of uncertainty; implications of generative AI for robotics; refining risk prediction for binary outcomes; managing retractions and the implications for information literacy; the limits of what scaling can achieve in AI; regulating AI with existing frameworks; haystack summarization and performance for large language models; lessons from China on managing hypertension; much more: https://lnkd.in/eExgKUYN

In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: AI for decoding dog barks; Surgeon General designates firearm violence as public health crisis; where next for AlphaFold?; coming to grips with AI’s water use; randomized trial evaluates extended-release ketamine for depression; parsing the implications of vaccine exemption rates; forking paths in statistics; Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) releases assurance standards guide; LLMs for analyzing radiology reports; how AI will impact workforces; much more: https://lnkd.in/e54iGYAD

In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: scientific literature being flooded with bogus publications; LLMs can help screen for trial participants; lingering questions about H5N1 transmission; trial tests walking for lower back pain; interpretable deep learning model helps docs scan EEGs; why you shouldn’t cite chatbots; LLM model translates neglected languages; AI challenges for global governance; critiquing (and defending) Medicare Advantage; much more: https://lnkd.in/g8fexzB9