Flesh-and-blood physicians outperformed four symptom-checker apps when diagnosing patient simulations in a new head-to-head study. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, pitted 234 physicians ...

The 'deep learning' computers in a diagnostic imaging lab routinely defeat their human counterparts in diagnosing heart failure, detecting various cancers and predicting their strength. But ...

Computers are easier to use and more dependable with each new generation of hardware and operating system update, but that doesn't mean they're problem-free. Here's a look at the five most popular ...

STUART — Recent studies have shown that real-life doctors are better at figuring out what's ailing their patients than sophisticated symptom-checking websites and smartphone apps. While computers are ...

Computer scientists and pathologists at Stanford University now have a computer system that can look a tissue sample and diagnose breast cancer more accurately than a human doctor. The computer system ...

Computers have (happily) advanced to the point where we spend more time getting work done on them than we do fixing them, you still occasionally need a solid diagnostic tool. What tools do you use to ...

Your desktop computer comes with several sophisticated diagnostic programs. Technicians use these tools to find the causes of erratic behavior in the computer, slow operation and other problems. These ...

Soon, when your pet is sick, your veterinarian will have a powerful new tool to find out what's wrong - his personal computer. "Associate," a computer program developed at Texas A&M University, ...