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Artificial Intelligence
AI tools to help unveil patterns between social determinants of health, mental health risks, among autistic youth ⟩
November 10, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Autism Research
Amber Angell to lead five-year, $3.6 million study analyzing electronic health records, with collaborators from academia and the autistic community.
By Mike McNulty (Adobe Stock) A new USC-led study will apply artificial intelligence tools to electronic health records (EHRs) in order to better understand how social determinants of health — non-medical factors impacting health, such as education, income, housing and neighborhood resources like…
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Liew tapped to lead NIH-funded P50 national specialized research center ⟩
October 15, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Community and Partners Research Technology
Five-year, $6.5 million project will leverage data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning to build large rehabilitation research datasets for precision rehabilitation.
By Mike McNulty (Image generated by Adobe Firefly) Sook-Lei Liew is the principal investigator of the newly funded Data Science and Analytics for Precision Rehabilitation (DAPR) Center, a five-year project supported by a $6.5 million P50 grant from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation…
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AI-augmented MRIs may improve post-stroke prognosis ⟩
September 30, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Research Technology
New NIH-funded project uses AI to enhance MRI image resolution to better understand how global brain health impacts long-term stroke recovery.
By Mike McNulty (Adobe Stock) Artificial intelligence is seemingly, suddenly, everywhere. Soon, thanks to a new USC-led study funded by the National Institutes of Health, it will be used to generate synthetic stroke MRI images that are just as accurate and detailed as those produced by the world’s…
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Can ChatGPT actually “see” red? New results of Google-funded study are nuanced ⟩
July 8, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Research Technology
AI can accurately generate color associations, but humans use more than just language to understand color.
By Mike McNulty ChatGPT seems to “understand” the metaphor of ‘it was a very pink party’ better than ‘the meeting made him burgundy’ (Adobe Stock illustrations) ChatGPT works by analyzing vast amounts of text, identifying patterns and synthesizing them to generate responses to users’…
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AI could help in the early diagnosis of autism, USC study finds ⟩
December 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Autism Faculty Research Technology
Results indicate an “easy and novel” way to detect autism spectrum disorders, paving the way for tailored therapeutic approaches.
By Leigh Hopper Artificial intelligence, coupled with data from an iPad coloring game, could assist in early diagnosis of autism, a new USC study shows. “These results indicate potential for an easy and novel method for early detection of autism and development coordination disorder,” said…
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Mitigating on-the-job stress: Stress mapping with artificial intelligence ⟩
March 29, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Faculty Health and Wellness Research Technology
USC Chan’s Shawn Roll leading interdisciplinary team on $1.1M National Science Foundation grant for managing, mitigating on-the-job stress.
By Mike McNulty for The Explorer Journal 2023 (Illustration by master1305/Adobe Stock) The World Health Organization has called stress the “health epidemic of the 21st century” — and that was before the Covid-19 pandemic. While a highly personalized phenomenon, job-related stress is…
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