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

AI systems are being adopted in oncology practice to support cancer detection, risk stratification, treatment planning, and clinical documentation workflows.

As of the August 2026 commentary, AI was increasingly integrated into oncology for detection, risk stratification, treatment planning, and documentation. The authors reviewed evidence that these systems can reproduce or amplify disparities and examined technical sources of bias and competing statistical definitions of fairness.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0829

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

Large language models can restructure prostate MRI reports and extract discrete variables to support supervised summaries and patient-facing explanations.

Published August 17 2026 in Abdominal Radiology, this Perspective examines large language models applied to prostate MRI reporting, a task where laterality, sector, size, PI-RADS, and staging language directly affect biopsy and treatment decisions and where patients often see reports via portals before clinician discussion.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0828

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

Deep-learning based AIIR reconstruction improved CT image quality and diagnostic accuracy for gastric cancer, increasing tumor conspicuity and raising AUC for detecting serosal invasion compared to hybrid iterative reconstruction.

Researchers prospectively tested a deep-learning based artificial intelligence iterative reconstruction algorithm against conventional hybrid iterative reconstruction in 132 gastric cancer patients undergoing preoperative abdominal CT before surgery or staging laparoscopy. By August 2026, they reported higher Likert scores for tumor margin and enhancement, higher contrast-to-noise ratios in arterial and portal venous phases, and higher AUC for detecting serosal invasion with AIIR.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0827

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

An integrated framework using WBAF preprocessing, MResU-Net segmentation, IPHOG feature extraction and IShuffleNet-PCNN classification achieved 0.933 accuracy and 0.991 NPV for spinal cord injury-related fracture classification from CT images.

Researchers developed a four-stage deep learning framework for CT-based spinal cord injury fracture assessment, combining Weighted Balanced Anisotropic Filtering for denoising, Modified Residual U-Net for spinal cord segmentation, Improved Pyramid Histogram of Oriented Gradients for feature extraction, and a new IShuffleNet-Parallel CNN classifier with Group Normalization and Adaptive Swish-Mish activation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%98

Updated Aug 18, 2026 · TRV-2026-0826

AI problems · 520

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ProblemHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Mainstream implementation of AI in healthcare is hindered by data security issues and budget and resource constraints.

This peer-reviewed review from January 2025 examined how AI technologies including robotics, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing are being applied in healthcare. Drawing on Web of Science literature from 2014-2024 and case studies such as Google Health and IBM Watson Health, it reported growth in publications and use in patient interaction, predictive analytics, and remote monitoring.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0544

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ProblemClimate· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI for extreme climate events is limited by noisy, heterogeneous, small sample sizes with limited annotations, challenges integrating real-time information, and lack of understandable models needed for stakeholder trust and regulatory compliance.

Published February 24, 2025, this Nature Communications review examines how artificial intelligence is used to model and understand extreme weather and climate events including floods, droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves. It reports that AI has improved weather forecasting, model emulation, parameter estimation, and prediction of extremes, while also discussing methods to identify and explain events more effectively.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0543

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ProblemEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

The same AI-driven neuroadaptive learning systems raise implementation problems for K-12 and adult learners, including data privacy and data security risks, ethical concerns and algorithmic bias, scalability issues, and accessibility disparities.

This February 2025 systematic review of 103 papers examined how Cognitive Load Theory, Educational Neuroscience, and AI/ML combine in adaptive learning. It found that systems using EEG, fNIRS and other physiological signals to feed CNN, RNN and SVM models can automatically manage cognitive load and dynamically adapt learning pathways for K-12 and adult learners.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0542

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ProblemEducation· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

AI adoption in nursing faces barriers including data privacy risks, algorithmic bias, lack of transparency and accountability, resistance to adoption, and disparities in access to AI technologies and standardized education.

On March 12, 2025, an umbrella review in the Journal of Medical Internet Research synthesized 18 reviews from 274 screened records on AI in nursing. It found consistent reports of potential advances in patient care and clinical workflows alongside an urgent push to update nursing curricula with AI-driven tools and ethics training.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%93

Updated Jul 24, 2026 · TRV-2026-0538

Recomputed live from the record · Aug 28, 2026, 12:02 AM