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Medical AI falters when assessing patients it hasn’t seen

Physicians rely on algorithms for personalized medicine — but an analysis of schizophrenia trials shows that the tools fail to adapt to new data sets.
  1. Miryam Naddaf
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Computer algorithms that are designed to help doctors treat people with schizophrenia do not adapt well to fresh, unseen data, a study has found.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00094-9

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