How do cancer cells differ from healthy cells? A new machine learning algorithm called "ikarus" knows the answer, reports a team led by MDC bioinformatician Altuna Akalin in the journal Genome Biology ...

A newly proposed checklist outlines six objectives to strive for in the development of machine-learning algorithms that help clinicians make health care decisions and recommendations for patients.

Machine learning is based on the idea that a system can learn to perform a task without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning has a wide range of applications in the finance, healthcare, ...