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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2025

The application of machine learning in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.

Cheng Xu, Ling-Yun Zhao, Cun-Si Ye, Ke-Chen Xu, Ke-Yang Xu

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. [Advances in the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Microbiological Testing].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2026
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  6. Early prediction of plastic bronchitis in pediatric patients withFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Cheng Xu *Clinical Laboratory of Chun'an First People's Hospital, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital Chun'an Branch, Hangzhou Medical College Affiliated Chun'an Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Ling-Yun Zhao *Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Cun-Si YeDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Institution of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China.
Ke-Chen XuSchool of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.
Ke-Yang XuFaculty of Chinese Medicine, and State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the development of artificial intelligence(AI) in computer science and statistics, it has been further applied to the medical field. These applications include the management of infectious diseases, in which machine learning has created inroads in clinical microbiology, radiology, genomics, and the analysis of electronic health record data. Especially, the role of machine learning in microbiology has gradually become prominent, and it is used in etiological diagnosis, prediction of antibiotic resistance, association between human microbiome characteristics and complex host diseases, prognosis judgment, and prevention and control of infectious diseases. Machine learning in the field of microbiology mainly adopts supervised learning and unsupervised learning, involving algorithms from classification and regression to clustering and dimensionality reduction. This Review explains crucial concepts in machine learning for unfamiliar readers, describes machine learning's current applications in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases, and summarizes important approaches clinicians must be aware of when evaluating research using machine learning.

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Communicable DiseasesMachine LearningMicrobiologyAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceHumansapplicationartificial intelligenceclinical microbiologyinfectious diseasesmachine learning

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PMID40375898
PMCPMC12078339

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