Sweet & Bitter — Positive and Negative Impacts of AI

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Novel Artificial Intelligence Chest X-ray Diagnostics: A Quality Assessment of Their Agreement with Human Doctors in Clinical Routine.

PURPOSE: The rising demand for radiology services calls for innovative solutions to sustain diagnostic quality and efficiency. This study evaluated the diagnostic agreement between two commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) chest X-ray systems and human radiologists during routine clini

Aug 1, 2026

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Model and Task-Aware Test-Time Scaling Strategies for Large Language and Vision-Language Models in Medicine: Evaluation Study.

BACKGROUND: Test-time scaling has emerged as a promising method to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) during inference without additional training. While foundational studies established scaling paradigms in general domains, their app

Jul 26, 2026

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Bloom's taxonomy-based comparison of artificial intelligence and dental students in restorative dentistry.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to compare the performance of three large language models (ChatGPT 5, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini 3), with that of dental students using their responses to multiple-choice questions (MCQs) in restorative dentistry. Accuracy of responses were analyzed acr

Jul 21, 2026

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Nonverbal AI-Based Communication Robot for Staff in Disaster-Affected Care Facilities: Exploratory ABAB Intervention Study.

BACKGROUND: Medical and welfare facilities in the Noto region of Japan were severely affected by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake and subsequent torrential rains. Staff working in these facilities were disaster survivors and frontline caregivers with limited psychological support. Nonverbal social

Jul 16, 2026

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The Invisible Gap: How AI Productivity Masks Eroding Expertise in Knowledge Work – and what to do about it

Generative and agentic AI is rapidly reshaping how knowledge workers think, learn, and produce — lifting productivity substantially, with the largest gains concentrated among novices and lower-skilled workers (Brynjolfsson et al., 2025). Yet the same dynamic raises a deeper question: if AI absorbs t

Jul 11, 2026

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Comparative analysis of AI and human radiographer performance in radiographic image assessments: A pilot study using a large language model to simulate radiographer decision-making.

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND: To determine whether a prompting-based, interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) system, specifically a large language model (LLM) that applies structured radiographic criteria derived from radiographer training, can approximate Kuwaiti radiographer acceptance-rejection de

Jul 6, 2026

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Adoption of Artificial Intelligence-Based Precision Mental Health Technologies Among Psychology Trainees: Mixed Methods Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

BACKGROUND: Despite the significant benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health, real-world implementation remains limited, making it essential to understand the factors that influence adoption. OBJECTIVE: This study examined the acceptability and intention to use artificial intelligen

Jul 6, 2026

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Performance of multimodal large language models for the detection and characterization of bone lesions on radiographs

PURPOSE: Multimodal large language models (LLMs) offer emerging capabilities in medical image interpretation; however, their efficacy in orthopedic oncology remains unverified. This study aimed to evaluate and benchmark the performance of five contemporary LLMs-ChatGPT 5.2, Gemini 3 Flash, MedGemma

Jun 16, 2026

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Advancing Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Cultivation through Smart Greenhouse Technologies

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are increasingly important in global agriculture due to their extensive use in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, and food industries, where their value is largely determined by biomass yield and the concentration of bioactive secondary metabolites. However

Jun 11, 2026

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