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The Big Picture - How AI Is Changing Research

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The speaker shared a personal story about a suspicious mammogram that led to a biopsy showing atypical ductal hyperplasia. Frustrated by delayed and unclear medical communication, she turned to Google, PubMed, Python, and ChatGPT to investigate her breast cancer risk. She automated PubMed scraping into Excel, then used large language models to cluster and summarize more than 1,500 abstracts, identify study types, statistical methods, journal quality, and estimate risk from the literature. Her takeaway was that AI in healthcare can help solve problems that were impossible before 2017, but only when guided by strong prompts and human expertise. She emphasized that the real power comes from combining clinical questions, technical skill, and creative prompting to explore uncharted territory in medicine.

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By Diana M. Thomas, PhD, FTOS

Keywords

atypical ductal hyperplasia

breast cancer risk

PubMed scraping

large language models

AI in healthcare