Google's DeepMind can detect acute kidney disease — but false positives and a lack of diversity in the study's participants could hamper its overall success:
AKI refers to sudden impairment or failure of normal kidney functions, and it claims the lives of approximately
people globally each year, according to research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.DeepMind's tech is a groundbreaking application of ML for clinical diagnostics, but false positives and a lack of diversity in the study's participants means this is just the start of its efforts. This study is a breakthrough for the early detection of AKI — a notoriously difficult disease for physicians to identify. The disease is hard to detect given how little is known about its causes and the speed at which the kidney breakdown occurs.
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