A new method can now find previously unknown factors that underlie disease by using statistical machine learning to sort through mountains of complex biological data. This flagship method, called ...

However, by the late 1970s, there was disappointment that the two main approaches to computing in medicine — rule-based systems and matching, or pattern recognition, systems — had not been as ...

Researchers analyzed data from middle-aged workers who had received Specific Health Guidance -- a revolutionary system implemented by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare to improve ...