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The Index

What the evidence says.What the public feels.

Ranks distinct AI gain and problem claims from the published record. Scores reward impact, independent source strength, scale, confidence, and recency.

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AI gains · 641

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GainHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

In 300 patients with histopathologically confirmed OLP and at least 24 months follow-up, a multimodal LLM achieved 94.7% trajectory classification accuracy and 99.6% specificity for detecting expert-defined high-risk cases.

Researchers retrospectively tested ChatGPT on 300 histopathologically confirmed oral lichen planus cases with at least 24 months of follow-up, using serial clinical records, intraoral photographs, and histopathology reports. Compared with blinded expert panel consensus, the model achieved 94.7% accuracy for trajectory classification and 78.8% sensitivity with 99.6% specificity for high-risk detection as of the August 2026 publication.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 16, 2026 · TRV-2026-0788

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GainHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A pretrained Vision Transformer fine-tuned on a merged 21-class capsule endoscopy dataset achieved 92.2% accuracy and 0.99 AUC on an independent test set, outperforming DenseNet121 and ResNet50.

A comparative study merged SEE-AI and Kvasir-Capsule into a 21-class capsule endoscopy image dataset and fine-tuned a Vision Transformer, DenseNet121, and ResNet50. On an independent test set of 8,696 frames, the transformer achieved 92.2% accuracy and 0.99 AUC, substantially higher than the two CNN baselines under the reported experimental conditions.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 16, 2026 · TRV-2026-0779

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GainHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Applying FDA-cleared SubtleHD enhancement to already diagnostic-quality T1 MRI improved Alzheimer's disease classification performance and allowed models trained on only 70% of enhanced data to match full-data standard-of-care performance.

A retrospective study of 2293 ADNI brain MRIs plus 270 external NACC scans tested whether SubtleHD, an FDA-cleared deep learning enhancement tool, could improve downstream Alzheimer's classification when applied to already diagnostic-quality 1.5T T1-weighted images. ResNet34 and DenseNet121 models trained on enhanced images outperformed those trained on standard-of-care images on internal and external tests.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 15, 2026 · TRV-2026-0769

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Solvent extraction of urine analyzed by GC-MS and XGBoost distinguished bladder cancer patients from controls with AUROC 0.869 and 85% balanced sensitivity and specificity using an 8-metabolite panel.

On 2026-08-07, researchers reported a urine-based test for urothelial bladder cancer that combines solvent extraction, GC-MS profiling, and machine learning. In 100 participants, an XGBoost model using an 8-metabolite panel achieved AUROC 0.869, improving on classical statistics at 0.752, with 85% balanced sensitivity and specificity.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%97

Updated Aug 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-0728

AI problems · 514

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ProblemBusiness· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Enterprises governing AI as a broad technology program see many initiatives fail to scale or generate sustained business value

By July 2026, the authors described an AI-investment paradox in enterprises: continued heavy investment alongside initiatives that fail to scale. They proposed a decision-centric portfolio framework that reframes governance around discrete investable decision opportunities within workflows, introducing AI-Investable Process Nodes as bounded points where benefits, risks and costs can be assessed ex ante.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%60
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%91

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0111

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ProblemMedia & Arts· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Tacit rules are negatively associated with AI autonomy feasibility, constraining full replacement to 2.7% of tasks and leaving 11.0% AI immune in cultural and creative occupations.

Researchers analyzed 593 tasks across 126 occupations in the cultural and creative industries using GPT-4 generated synthetic annotations of Australian Skills Classification descriptions. They measured cognitive and behavioural rules and estimated AI autonomy feasibility and efficiency potential to map where human, AI, or hybrid carriers fit.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0693

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Patients classified as Severe profile with early onset, 73.3% co-occurring psychiatric conditions and intense craving had poorer 3-month outcomes with only 36.7% abstinence and steep return to use.

In a retrospective study of 102 patients at a tertiary care center in India, researchers used k-means clustering on eight biopsychosocial baseline variables to derive three AUD profiles. By the August 2026 publication date, they reported Late-Onset, High-Functioning, and Severe groups with differing 3-month abstinence rates corroborated by GGT levels and bootstrap-assessed cluster stability.

Impact 30%63
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 8, 2026 · TRV-2026-0687

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 5:27 AM