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Google describes a study with 2,000 mothers in Nairobi and Chicago that used AI to interpret video from simple “blind sweep” ultrasound scans. The company says the model estimated gestational age and fetal presentation as accurately as a trained sonographer.
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A medRxiv preprint reports that a RoBERTa model classified depression-related Twitter users with 0.822 accuracy on an 80/20 training–testing split. The study also used GPT-4o to identify themes in posts, including societal pressure and low self-esteem.
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A study of 95,559 UK Biobank participants found that accelerometer-estimated REM sleep was associated with lower incidence of 83 diseases. The observational analysis also found that estimated minimum-risk sleep duration for most of the conditions with non-linear associations fell between 6 and 8 hours.