{"id":190243,"date":"2026-02-24T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/clinically-informed-ai-outperforms-foundation-models-in-spinal-cord-disease-prediction-the-source\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:35:11","slug":"clinically-informed-ai-outperforms-foundation-models-in-spinal-cord-disease-prediction-the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/clinically-informed-ai-outperforms-foundation-models-in-spinal-cord-disease-prediction-the-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinically informed AI outperforms foundation models in spinal cord disease prediction &#8211; The Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/02\/clinically-informed-ai-outperforms-foundation-models-in-spinal-cord-disease-prediction\/\">Clinically informed AI outperforms foundation models in spinal cord disease prediction &#8211; The Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/02\/clinically-informed-ai-outperforms-foundation-models-in-spinal-cord-disease-prediction\/\">https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/02\/clinically-informed-ai-outperforms-foundation-models-in-spinal-cord-disease-prediction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 12:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"source.washu.edu\">source.washu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A multidisciplinary team from WashU, including surgeon-scientists, computer scientists, and researchers, has developed an AI-based method to diagnose cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) up to 30 months earlier.<\/li>\n<li>CSM, a chronic condition caused by spinal cord compression due to neck arthritis, is the leading cause of spinal cord dysfunction in older adults and often leads to symptoms like neck pain and muscle weakness in its late stages.<\/li>\n<li>The AI approach analyzes electronic health records of over 2 million people, employing seven different models to detect patterns indicating CSM, potentially identifying at-risk patients earlier.<\/li>\n<li>The findings were published in npj Digital Medicine in January, providing new opportunities for early treatment and better outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>Co-first authors Salim Yakdan and Ben Warner developed the AI system that relies on large datasets to identify individuals whose records match those of known CSM patients, flagging higher risk individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinically informed AI outperforms foundation models in spinal cord disease prediction &#8211; The Source https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/2026\/02\/clinically-informed-ai-outperforms-foundation-models-in-spinal-cord-disease-prediction\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/source.washu.edu\/app\/uploads\/2026\/02\/spinal-cord-disease-prediction-copy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190245,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190243\/revisions\/190245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}