Medical algorithms trained on adult data may be unreliable for evaluating young patients. But children’s records present complex quandaries for AI, especially around equity and consent.
Ritimukta Sarangi, senior scientist at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, on what X‑ray tools reveal about plant roots and the soil around them.
A model trained on thousands of images in medical textbooks and journal articles found that dark skin tones are underrepresented in materials that teach doctors to recognize disease.
Average body temperature is really about 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit, and what’s “normal” varies by age, sex, weight, time of day, and more, a new Stanford Medicine study finds.
About 1 in 5 people carries a version of a gene that appears to reduce the risk of both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, a massive new study finds.
