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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

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An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine. days, it estimated, she would be ready to leave her nursing home. Read the rest…

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Decoding the Best Machine Learning Papers from NeurIPS 2019

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The post Decoding the Best Machine Learning Papers from NeurIPS 2019 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. Introduction NeurIPS is THE premier machine learning conference in the world. No other research conference attracts a crowd of 6000+ people in one place.

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Life2vec AI Can Accurately Predict Your Death!

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This revolutionary model, an extension of Stanford’s Word2vec algorithm from 2019, has shown significant promise in transforming healthcare. Life2vec, a neural network model, is at the forefront of predictive medicine, leveraging AI to analyze health data and forecast health-related outcomes.

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Algorithmic Bias in Facial Recognition Technologies

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Algorithmic Bias in Facial Recognition Technologies Exploring how facial recognition systems can perpetuate biases. While FR was limited by a lack of computational power and algorithmic accuracy back then, we have since seen huge innovative improvements in the field.

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Predictive modeling of COVID-19 mortality risk in chronic kidney disease patients using multiple machine learning algorithms

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a significant impact on the global population, particularly on individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We developed machine learning algorithms to analyze 219 patients’ clinical laboratory test data retrospectively.

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A 2019 Guide to Object Detection

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In this piece, we’ll look at the basics of object detection and review some of the most commonly-used algorithms and a few brand new approaches, as well. Object detection has been applied widely in video surveillance, self-driving cars, and object/people tracking.

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