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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 · 649

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

Adaptive boosting support vector regression trained on GC parameters predicts retention times with high accuracy, enabling optimization of capillary gas chromatography to separate coeluted C1-C12 hydrocarbon isomers.

Researchers built a machine learning pipeline to predict retention times in capillary gas chromatography, training six algorithms on 608 data points covering 73 instrument settings and 61 C1-C12 hydrocarbons from RESTEK chromatograms and literature. The adaptive boosting support vector regression model achieved R2 scores of 0.992-0.993 on validation and testing sets.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 27, 2026 · TRV-2026-0903

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

AI-assisted ultrasound of the rectus femoris quantified intramuscular fat percentage (FATi), which was independently associated with diabetic nephropathy and adverse metabolic profiles in patients with diabetes.

In a cross-sectional study of 120 diabetes outpatients at a tertiary Endocrinology and Nutrition Department, researchers used the PIIXMED AI-system to analyze rectus femoris ultrasound images and quantify intramuscular fat percentage (FATi). By publication date 2026-08-24, they reported that higher FATi was associated with adverse metabolic profiles and microvascular complications.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0900

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

Stacked ensembles combining five CNN backbones improved automated detection and size stratification of periapical lesions on cropped intraoral radiographs, reaching high accuracy and high sensitivity for very small lesions on internal testing.

Researchers built stacked deep learning ensembles to detect periapical lesions and stratify them by radiographic size on intraoral radiographs. Using 146 cropped and augmented images, five CNN backbones were combined with MLR and XGBoost meta-learners and evaluated on an internal hold-out test set.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0899

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

Adapted iPsRS model using 13 individual-level SDoH predictors predicted 1-year all-cause hospitalization in a general adult cohort with AUROC up to 0.671, enabling equity-aware risk stratification for clinical care.

Researchers adapted the individualized polysocial risk score, originally built for type 2 diabetes, to a disease-agnostic cohort of 17,857 adults at University of Florida Health. Using 13 individual-level social determinants of health, they trained XGBoost and logistic regression models to predict all-cause hospitalization within one year, testing multiple fine-tuning levels and sampling strategies.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%100

Updated Aug 26, 2026 · TRV-2026-0897

AI problems · 520

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ProblemEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

A quarter of students reported exam-time assistance, while consistent verification was low and awareness of institutional guidelines was limited.

A cross-sectional survey of 454 final-year dental students in the UAE, Jordan, Malaysia, Oman, and Brazil examined LLM use, motivations, and safeguards. Published August 6 2026, it found ChatGPT predominated at 95.9%, with 39.2% using LLMs several times per week and 28.6% daily for tasks like understanding complex concepts and summarising lecture notes.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 7, 2026 · TRV-2026-0675

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

The evidence base for ML prediction of ART outcomes is limited by substantial heterogeneity and frequent high or unclear risk of bias, requiring prospective multi-center external validation before clinical use.

A systematic review and diagnostic meta-analysis of 20 studies, 14 in quantitative synthesis, evaluated machine learning models to predict clinical pregnancy or live birth after assisted reproductive technology. As of the August 2026 publication, pooled sensitivity was 0.737 and specificity 0.789 with a DOR of 10.49 and acceptable discrimination on SROC, but heterogeneity was very high.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 7, 2026 · TRV-2026-0674

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

LLM reasoning did not establish clinical equivalence in this limited evaluation and requires specialist oversight and further validation before clinical use.

Researchers compared large language models and clinicians on 34 real-world glaucoma cases, with glaucoma specialists scoring responses on medical accuracy, key-point recall, and logical completeness. AI models produced structured reasoning with weighted mean scores overlapping attending ophthalmologists and exceeding some residents.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 7, 2026 · TRV-2026-0673

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Integrating AI and LLMs into medical education raises ethical concerns across privacy and data security, algorithmic bias, accountability, fairness, reliability, dependency, and patient autonomy.

Published October 22, 2025, this PLOS One scoping review examined literature on AI and large language models like ChatGPT in medical education. It found potential for personalized learning alongside a set of ethical challenges, synthesizing 50 studies from three major databases covering 2010 to August 2024.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%96

Updated Aug 6, 2026 · TRV-2026-0670

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 27, 2026, 7:30 PM