Sakshi Gautam, Anamika Thakur, Akanksha Rajput, Manoj Kumar
Viruses·
2023·
cited by 30
Medicine & Health
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Dengue virus has no approved antivirals, so computational methods are needed to predict small-molecule inhibitors and repurposed drug candidates.
Yanxi Zhao, Dengpan Xiao, Huizi Bai, Jianzhao Tang, De Li Liu, Yongqing Qi, Yanjun Shen
Agriculture·
2022·
cited by 33
Accurately predicting wheat yield in the North China Plain to support regional food security.
Thiraphat Tanphiriyakun, Sattaya Rojanasthien, Piyapong Khumrin
Scientific Reports·
2021·
cited by 39
Medicine & Health
Bone health and osteoporosis research
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Doctors lack a reliable way to select the best osteoporosis treatment regimen for individual patients to improve bone mineral density and prevent fractures.
Dimitrios Vitsios, Ryan S. Dhindsa, Lawrence Middleton, Ayal B. Gussow, Slavé Petrovski
Nature Communications·
2021·
cited by 88
Identifying which non-coding regions of the human genome are functional and disease-relevant is a key challenge in genomics.
Akhil Vaid, Kipp W. Johnson, Marcus A. Badgeley, Sulaiman S. Somani, Mesude Bicak, Isotta Landi, Adam J. Russak, Shan Zhao et al.
JACC. Cardiovascular imaging·
2021·
cited by 124
Medicine & Health
ECG Monitoring and Analysis
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Rapidly assessing left and right ventricular (heart pump) function from a routine ECG was not possible; no deep learning tools existed for right ventricular function and left ventricular tools covered only very low function.
Carlos Fernandez-Lozano, Pablo Hervella, Virginia Mato‐Abad, Manuel Rodríguez‐Yáñez, Sonia Suárez, Iria López‐Dequidt, Ana Estany‐Gestal, Tomás Sobrino et al.
Scientific Reports·
2021·
cited by 130
Medicine & Health
Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Clinicians lack tools to predict which stroke patients will die or suffer morbidity three months after admission.
Yichao Li, Jingjing Chen, Shengdar Q. Tsai, Yong Cheng
Genome biology·
2021·
cited by 68
Designing highly efficient prime editors for making precise DNA edits remains challenging.
Xiyue Wang, Tao Shen, Sen Yang, Jun Lan, Yanming Xu, Minghui Wang, Jing Zhang, Xiao Han
NeuroImage Clinical·
2021·
cited by 192
Medicine & Health
Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Diagnosing acute intracranial hemorrhage on non-contrast head CT varies greatly among radiologists due to subtle findings and heavy time pressure.
Hongjian Qi, Haicang Zhang, Yige Zhao, Chen Chen, John J. Long, Wendy K. Chung, Yongtao Guan, Yufeng Shen
Nature Communications·
2021·
cited by 198
Medicine & Health
Genomics and Rare Diseases
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Accurately predicting whether missense genetic variants are pathogenic is critical for genetic studies and clinical diagnosis, and prior methods had limited performance.
Steve Rodriguez, Clemens B. Hug, Petar V. Todorov, Nienke Moret, Sarah A. Boswell, Kyle E. Evans, George Zhou, Nathan T. Johnson et al.
Nature Communications·
2021·
cited by 293
Medicine & Health
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Alzheimer's disease drug trials are slow, expensive and largely failing, so existing approved drugs need to be screened for reuse.
Jonathan A Weyn, Dale Richard Durran, Rich Caruana, Nathaniel Cresswell‐Clay
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems·
2021·
cited by 190
Climate & Environment
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Producing sub-seasonal (six-week) global weather forecasts with large ensembles is computationally prohibitive with traditional numerical models.
Xin Zhang, Kai Gu, Shumei Miao, Xiaoliang Zhang, Yuechuchu Yin, Cheng Wan, Yun Yu, Jie Hu et al.
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy·
2020·
cited by 81
Medicine & Health
ECG Monitoring and Analysis
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Manual ECG interpretation is error-prone; automated detection and classification of cardiovascular disease from ECG signals was needed.
Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup, Nicolas Delfosse, Vedran Dunjko, Hans J. Briegel, Nicolai Friis
Quantum·
2019·
cited by 158
Physics & Astronomy
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Determining the most suited quantum error correction encoding for unknown error channels or specific laboratory setups is highly challenging.
Pushpanjali Gupta, Sum-Fu Chiang, Prasan Kumar Sahoo, Suvendu Kumar Mohapatra, Jeng‐Fu You, Djeane Debora Onthoni, Hsin‐Yuan Hung, Jy‐Ming Chiang et al.
Cancers·
2019·
cited by 100
Medicine & Health
AI in cancer detection
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Predicting colon cancer TNM stage and five-year disease-free survival from histopathology parameters is difficult.
Tianhang Nan, Song Zheng, Siyuan Qiao, Hao Quan, Xin Gao, Xin Gao, Jun Niu, Bin Zheng et al.
Nature Communications·
2025·
cited by 45
Training deep learning diagnostic models on whole slide images requires massive pixelwise annotation time from pathologists, limiting dataset size and diagnostic precision.
Douglas Teodoro, Nona Naderi, Anthony Yazdani, Boya Zhang, Alban Bornet
npj Digital Medicine·
2025·
cited by 46
Medicine & Health
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Assessing safety, efficacy, and operational risks in clinical trials is difficult; AI is increasingly applied to improve it.
Jiao Hu, Jiaxu Cui, Bo Xiong Yang
Nature Communications·
2025·
cited by 13
Science & Research
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Discovering the governing equations of complex network dynamics from data, across fields like physics, ecology and epidemiology.
Ziyao Meng, Zhouyu Guan, Shujie Yu, Yi-Lan Wu, Yaoning Zhao, Jie Shen, Cynthia Ciwei Lim, Ting‐Li Chen et al.
The Lancet Digital Health·
2025·
cited by 47
Medicine & Health
Retinal Imaging and Analysis
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Screening for diabetic kidney disease and distinguishing isolated diabetic nephropathy from non-diabetic kidney disease are major access-limited challenges in diabetes care.
Julian Klug, Guillaume Leclerc, Elisabeth Dirren, Emmanuel Carrera
Communications Medicine·
2024·
cited by 30
Medicine & Health
Machine Learning in Healthcare
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Predicting functional outcome after stroke is complicated by fluctuations in the first days, yet is needed for treatment planning and resource allocation.
Ya Zhang, Zheng Li, Zhongqiang Li, Huaizhi Wang, Dinkar Regmi, Jian Zhang, Ji‐Ming Feng, Shaomian Yao et al.
Biological Procedures Online·
2024·
cited by 15
Medicine & Health
Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Surgeons need to quickly distinguish cancerous breast tissue from healthy tissue during surgery to ensure complete tumor removal.
Haohuai He, Bing He, Lei Guan, Yu Zhao, Feng Jiang, Guanxing Chen, Qing-Ge Zhu, Calvin Yu‐Chian Chen et al.
Nature Communications·
2024·
cited by 69
Medicine & Health
vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Discovering antigen-specific antibodies relies on isolating them from serum, a resource-intensive and time-consuming process.
Kenneth Atz, Leandro Cotos, Clemens Isert, M. Håkansson, Dorota Focht, Mattis Hilleke, David F. Nippa, Michael Iff et al.
Nature Communications·
2024·
cited by 95
Medicine & Health
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Designing new drug-like molecules from scratch with specific bioactivity, synthesizability and structural novelty is a core challenge in drug discovery.
Guillaume P. Ramstein, Edward S. Buckler
Genome biology·
2022·
cited by 34
Biology & Life Sciences
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Identifying which maize genetic variants are functionally important, at high resolution, to support crop improvement via genomic prediction and genome editing.
David Domínguez, Luis de Juan del Villar, Odette Pantoja Díaz, Mario González
Sustainability·
2022·
cited by 32
Climate & Environment
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Predicting annual Amazon rain-forest deforestation area across 760 Brazilian municipalities from static geographic and 20-year time-series data.