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ReviewNPJ digital medicine2019

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in clinical development: a translational perspective.

Pratik Shah, Francis Kendall, Sean Khozin, Ryan Goosen, Jianying Hu, Jason Laramie, Michael Ringel, Nicholas Schork

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Review in NPJ digital medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
172citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
18.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

172 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 489 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Pratik Shah *1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA USA.
Francis Kendall *1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA USA.
Sean Khozin3US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD USA.
Ryan GoosenThe Boston Consulting Group, Boston, MA USA.
Jianying Hu5IBM Research, Center for Computational Health, New York, NY USA.
Jason Laramie6Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA.
Michael RingelThe Boston Consulting Group, Boston, MA USA.
Nicholas Schork7The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Quantitative Medicine and Systems Biology Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ USA.
Boston Consulting Group (United States)Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USNovartis (United States) · USTranslational Genomics Research Institute · USUnited States Food and Drug Administration · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data sources, computing power to identify clinically meaningful patterns in the data using efficient artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms, and regulators embracing this change through new collaborations. This perspective summarizes insights, recent developments, and recommendations for infusing actionable computational evidence into clinical development and health care from academy, biotechnology industry, nonprofit foundations, regulators, and technology corporations. Analysis and learning from publically available biomedical and clinical trial data sets, real-world evidence from sensors, and health records by machine-learning architectures are discussed. Strategies for modernizing the clinical development process by integration of AI- and ML-based digital methods and secure computing technologies through recently announced regulatory pathways at the United States Food and Drug Administration are outlined. We conclude by discussing applications and impact of digital algorithmic evidence to improve medical care for patients.

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Computer scienceTranslational research

Identifiers

PMID31372505
PMCPMC6659652
OpenAlexW2963899699

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