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AI uses medical records to accurately predict onset of disease 20 years into the future

An artificial-intelligence model trained on health-care records uses a person’s medical history to estimate whether and when any of more than 1,200 diseases might arise.
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  1. Yonghui Wu

    1. Yonghui Wu is in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics and in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Preston A. Wells Jr Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32608, USA.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a focus of science-fiction novels and films, some of which explore the associated ethical and philosophical complications. In the past few years, the technology has moved rapidly from the fictional realm to become a tool with real-world applications, including in health care. Ongoing efforts to use AI to understand and predict the timing of human disease diagnoses might lead to treatment advances as well as medical discoveries.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02971-3

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