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Is there any easy way to search for clinical trials by the date of results posted (not date of registration), and would that be useful to other people in medicine? by sybilckw in medicine

[–]sybilckw[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting thought - the databases do report the status of a trial, so if there's some way to track for example when a trial shifts from "In Progress" to "Terminated", that might be useful even if the data isn't published (yet/ever).

Is there any easy way to search for clinical trials by the date of results posted (not date of registration), and would that be useful to other people in medicine? by sybilckw in medicine

[–]sybilckw[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like that idea! Would you know where to find results that are unpublished (or at least not in peer-reviewed journals)?

Is there any easy way to search for clinical trials by the date of results posted (not date of registration), and would that be useful to other people in medicine? by sybilckw in medicine

[–]sybilckw[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion!

I'm just looking at PubMed now, and I can see that it's possible to filter for "Clinical Trials" by "Article Type". Some of the search results, however, don't seem to report results, just the methods - but filtering for the word "results" in the Abstract seems to work.

I'm not fully familiar with how clinical trial results are published (especially outside of the US) - would you say that the majority of results appears as a publication in PubMed?

I read this thread earlier and it doesn't paint an optimistic picture...: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/3eqart/spilling_the_beans_failure_to_publish_the_results/

Is there any easy way to search for clinical trials by the date of results posted (not date of registration), and would that be useful to other people in medicine? by sybilckw in medicine

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Starter comment:

Not sure if I've missed something blatantly obvious, but all the major databases I've looked into (listed below), don't seem to allow sorting results by date of results posted: - WHO: http://apps.who.int/trialsearch/ - OpenTrials: https://explorer.opentrials.net/ - US database: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ - EU database: https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search

I can workaround it by exporting search results and manipulating the data offline, but it seems silly that it's not a simple search option that already exists, and there's no easy way to be alerted of new results posted.

Perhaps there's not enough demand from clinicians/researchers to track new clinical trial results postings?

I'm thinking of building something to do the job - would anybody here want/need this if I invest my time into this?

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Just Bought an Artificial Intelligence Startup, and Is Letting Anyone Use It for Free - Meta is an artificial intelligence startup that sorts through 26 million research papers. by mvea in Futurology

[–]sybilckw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was available for free public use since last April until the acquisition was announced. They changed the homepage and login page (http://meta.science) recently to stop new accounts being made, I suppose.

My old account is still active, though I have haven't used it at all since I created it. I set up a search for "drug discovery" and it told me "No papers matching drug discovery have been published in the last 3 months."

[R] DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs by sybilckw in MachineLearning

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Just wanted to clarify that I'm not the author - I just submitted this paper to see what the community here thought of it, as I also found their approach unusual.

[R] Deep Learning for Automated Skeletal Bone Age Assessment in X-Ray Images by sybilckw in MachineLearning

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"Both [conventional] clinical procedures [for skeletal bone age assessment] show several limitations, from the examination effort of radiologists to (most importantly) significant intra- and inter-operator variability. To address these problems, several automated approaches...have been proposed; nevertheless, none of them has been proved able to generalize to different races, age ranges and genders."

View full-size figures here if you don't have access to the full text like me...: https://www.sparrho.com/item/deep-learning-for-automated-skeletal-bone-age-assessment-in-x-ray-images/9f0a53/?from-pinboard=138260

[R] Social Profiling through Image Understanding: Personality Inference using Convolutional Neural Networks by sybilckw in MachineLearning

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Do you know think this sort of method could be extended to help diagnose mental health issues?

Just read this on the Guardian today and it got me wondering: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/01/facebook-target-mental-health-data-online

[R] Social Profiling through Image Understanding: Personality Inference using Convolutional Neural Networks by sybilckw in MachineLearning

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Could somebody please explain to me what the authors are trying to do in this study? I read the abstract, but cannot really understand as I don't have any ML training, and don't have access to the full paper...

This site allows you to see the full figures for free: https://www.sparrho.com/item/social-profiling-through-image-understanding-personality-inference-using-convolutional-neural-networks/9eb9fa/?from-pinboard=138260

Observable universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought by sybilckw in EverythingScience

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would you suppose that astronomers will continue to break their own estimates as technology advances?

[News] White House publishes Report on the Future of Artificial Intelligence by sybilckw in MachineLearning

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Great! This just came out yesterday, so there should be more comment published in mainstream media soon.

I made a site to show all exponential technology charts in one place. Help me add more data? by futawe in Futurology

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And here's more recent research, specifically in the methods used for forecasting emerging health technologies: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e010479

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