How do we really know a patient's level of pain? Today, doctors ask patients to rate their own pain on a scale, relying heavily on what patients say to make their diagnoses. Stanford researchers are ...

Chemistry Professor Vijay Pande is using one-shot learning algorithms for drug development (Courtesy of Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News). Camille and Henry Dreyfus Distinguished Chair in Chemistry Vijay ...

Researchers at Stanford have developed a machine learning algorithm, CheXNet, to perform pneumonia diagnosis better than doctors. According to the World Health Organization, two-thirds of the world ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an innovative mathematical technique to find markers that effectively predict how deadly a cancer will be. The ...

Building on the key tenets of precision medicine, Stanford Medical School believes algorithms will transform healthcare into an industry that is more predictive than reactive. In fact, the school is ...

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer, with some 5.4 million cases in the United States each year, and it’s also the most treatable as long as it is detected in the early stages. However, not ...

A group of Stanford researchers says it has built an algorithm that can diagnose pneumonia in chest x-rays better than the average human radiologists. The group, which includes deep learning ...

When doctors believe a drug's side effects are behind a patient's aches and pains, they can report their suspicion to the FDA. But it can be hard to know whether those adverse symptoms are really drug ...