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Impact of allometric reference selection on management scale aboveground biomass estimation via Sentinel-2 and machine learning
ClimateContested · G 68 / P 68

Sentinel-2 and CART-based aboveground biomass estimation in Pinus brutia stands at forest management scale

Source article: Impact of allometric reference selection on management scale aboveground biomass estimation via Sentinel-2 and machine learning

Problem

Sentinel-2 and CART-based operational AGB mapping in Pinus brutia produced total estimates that differed by more than 700,000 Mg across the same 13,687 ha area depending solely on which allometric reference was used, making reference selection a dominant source of uncertainty.

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Gain

Sentinel-2-based AGB estimation using CART with the Sun et al. (1980) diameter-based allometric reference achieved the closest agreement with forest management plan data at the management-unit scale in Pinus brutia stands.

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Artificial intelligence-driven transformation in healthcare: the mediating role of technostress in the impact of openness to organizational change and attitude toward AI on innovative behavior
HealthPositive state · G 73 / P 68

impact of openness to organizational change and attitude toward AI on innovative work behavior through technostress among healthcare workers

Source article: Artificial intelligence-driven transformation in healthcare: the mediating role of technostress in the impact of openness to organizational change and attitude toward AI on innovative behavior

Problem

Technostress mediated the relationship, such that when openness to change and positive AI attitudes were low, higher technostress was associated with reduced innovative work behavior among the same hospital staff.

Journal of Health Organization and Management
Gain

Healthcare workers with high openness to organizational change and positive attitudes toward AI reported lower technostress, which was linked to higher innovative work behavior.

Journal of Health Organization and Management
Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding the Potential Benefits of ChatGPT in Promoting Teaching and Learning
EducationContested · G 70 / P 71

use of ChatGPT to support teaching and learning

Source article: Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding the Potential Benefits of ChatGPT in Promoting Teaching and Learning

Problem

In educational use, ChatGPT can generate wrong information and reflect training-data biases that may augment existing biases, raising privacy issues.

Journal of AI
Gain

ChatGPT can support teaching and learning by enabling personalized interactive instruction and creating formative assessment prompts that give ongoing feedback.

Journal of AI
Multi-omics strategies for biomarker discovery and application in personalized oncology
HealthContested · G 72 / P 69

multi-omics biomarker discovery and application for personalized oncology using machine learning integration

Source article: Multi-omics strategies for biomarker discovery and application in personalized oncology

Problem

Multi-omics biomarker approaches face persistent challenges in data heterogeneity, reproducibility, and clinical validation across diverse patient populations.

Molecular Biomedicine
Gain

Integration of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics using machine learning and deep learning has produced biomarker panels that support cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic decision-making.

Molecular Biomedicine
Challenges in Medical Algorithmic Fairness
HealthContested · G 71 / P 73

AI use in oncology for cancer detection and care delivery affecting patient populations

Source article: Challenges in Medical Algorithmic Fairness

Problem

Oncology AI systems can reproduce or amplify existing disparities across patient populations, and efforts to enforce fairness definitions often conflict with overall predictive performance.

JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Gain

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

JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Large language models and prostate MRI reporting: a stringent testbed for safe deployment under evolving AI, health-data, and cybersecurity regulation
HealthContested · G 69 / P 68

use of large language models to restructure and explain prostate MRI reports

Source article: Large language models and prostate MRI reporting: a stringent testbed for safe deployment under evolving AI, health-data, and cybersecurity regulation

Problem

When used for prostate MRI reporting, LLMs can hallucinate measurements, flip negations, misstate laterality, and overstate cancer likelihood, creating patient-safety and accountability risks especially if reports are copied outside clinical governance.

Abdominal Radiology
Gain

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

Abdominal Radiology
Exploring fashion designers' acceptance of AIGC: A dual-pathway analysis from the stimulus-organism-response perspective
LifestyleContested · G 64 / P 68

AIGC adoption among Chinese fashion-design practitioners and its effect on psychological need satisfaction and behavioral intention

Source article: Exploring fashion designers' acceptance of AIGC: A dual-pathway analysis from the stimulus-organism-response perspective

Problem

Perceived risk around AIGC reduced fashion designers' feelings of autonomy, competence and relatedness, undermining psychological conditions for adoption.

PLOS One
Gain

Among Chinese fashion-design practitioners, satisfaction of basic psychological needs, especially competence, increased behavioral intention to adopt AIGC tools.

PLOS One
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-based prediction of tuberculosis treatment failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis
HealthContested · G 74 / P 75

AI/ML models predicting tuberculosis treatment failure

Source article: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-based prediction of tuberculosis treatment failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Problem

Most models lacked external validation, only one was low risk of bias, publication bias was detected, and performance dropped in HIV-positive populations, leaving models not ready for routine clinical implementation.

PLOS One
Gain

Meta-analysis of 19 studies with 100,790 participants found AI/ML models achieved pooled discrimination of 0.836 for predicting tuberculosis treatment failure.

PLOS One
Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Survey of Sources, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies
HealthNegative state · G 67 / P 73

fairness and bias of AI systems used in healthcare decision-making and related domains

Source article: Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Survey of Sources, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies

Problem

AI systems applied to healthcare decision-making, medical diagnosis, and other domains can lead to unfair outcomes that perpetuate existing inequalities and reinforce harmful stereotypes, including generative biases in synthetic media.

Sci
Gain

Using mitigation approaches such as diverse and representative datasets and enhanced transparency and accountability can improve fairness of AI systems applied to healthcare decision-making and medical diagnosis.

Sci
CT-based prediction of hematoma expansion and adverse outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage: evidence appraisal, artificial intelligence translation, and GeroScience perspectives
HealthContested · G 71 / P 67

CT-based prediction of hematoma expansion and adverse outcomes after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage

Source article: CT-based prediction of hematoma expansion and adverse outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage: evidence appraisal, artificial intelligence translation, and GeroScience perspectives

Problem

Artificial intelligence approaches for CT-based prediction of hematoma expansion and adverse outcomes after spontaneous ICH are limited by small cohorts, overfitting, dataset heterogeneity, insufficient external validation, poor interpretability and lack of workflow integration.

GeroScience
Gain

CT-based prediction, including AI approaches, provides essential information for early hematoma expansion risk stratification to support individualized management after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.

GeroScience
Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Education: A Scoping Review of Academic Perspectives
EducationContested · G 67 / P 70

AI integration in nursing education among nursing academics

Source article: Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Education: A Scoping Review of Academic Perspectives

Problem

Despite belief AI will revolutionise nursing education, actual implementation remains conservative at augmentation level with none achieving transformative redefinition.

Journal of Advanced Nursing
Gain

Nursing academics selectively use AI to improve academic productivity and research writing efficiency.

Journal of Advanced Nursing
An Introduction to the Machine Learning Lifecycle for Clinical Microbiology
HealthContested · G 70 / P 72

machine learning lifecycle implementation in clinical microbiology for diagnostics and infection-related outcomes

Source article: An Introduction to the Machine Learning Lifecycle for Clinical Microbiology

Problem

ML applications in clinical microbiology face typical challenges including class imbalance, limited generalization, robustness issues, and need for model interpretation and explainability to achieve robust performance under real-world variability.

Clinical Microbiology and Infection
Gain

AI provides powerful computational methods to extract diagnostic, biological and epidemiological insights from high-volume microbiology datasets, with potential to enhance diagnostics, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention when integrated into lab workflows.

Clinical Microbiology and Infection
Cross-Species Generalization and Comparative Performance Analysis of Deep Neural Network Architectures in Histological Image Classification
HealthContested · G 65 / P 68

cross-domain histological image classification of lung, cerebellum and adipose tissues using deep neural network encoders tested on external mixed human-and-animal cohort

Source article: Cross-Species Generalization and Comparative Performance Analysis of Deep Neural Network Architectures in Histological Image Classification

Problem

Models that were near-perfect during internal cross-validation diverged significantly on the separate external cohort, showing reduced out-of-distribution generalization for cross-species histological classification.

Microscopy Research and Technique
Gain

The pathology foundation model UNI2-h achieved the highest cross-domain accuracy on an external mixed human-and-animal cohort, including 97.4% F1 for difficult lung tissue classification.

Microscopy Research and Technique
A Comprehensive Survey: Evaluating the Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques on Cyber Security Solutions
CrimeContested · G 65 / P 69

use of ML, DL and RL models for cybersecurity defense

Source article: A Comprehensive Survey: Evaluating the Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques on Cyber Security Solutions

Problem

ML, DL and RL-based cybersecurity solutions are susceptible to adversarial attacks, and ChatGPT-like tools can be manipulated to threaten data integrity, confidentiality and availability.

IEEE Access
Gain

Machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques improve cybersecurity systems' ability to detect and mitigate cyberattacks including malware and intrusions.

IEEE Access
Diagnostic accuracy of electronic medical record retrieval methods and a large language model for identifying cardiovascular events: a multisite retrospective validation study in a medical system in the United States
HealthContested · G 69 / P 69

automated identification of cardiovascular events from EMRs using LLM-assisted workflow versus ICD-based retrieval

Source article: Diagnostic accuracy of electronic medical record retrieval methods and a large language model for identifying cardiovascular events: a multisite retrospective validation study in a medical system in the United States

Problem

The LLM-assisted workflow did not consistently outperform ICD-based retrieval, with no statistically significant AUC difference in Cohort 1 and lower AUC than ICD codes for heart failure in that cohort.

BMJ Open
Gain

A zero-shot LLM-assisted workflow improved automated identification of cardiovascular events from EMRs, achieving the highest AUCs for stroke, MI and composite MACE in two cohorts compared to ICD codes, primary diagnosis and problem list methods.

BMJ Open