New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests
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EN: The present perfect tense ('have developed') is formed with 'have/has + past participle'. In news contexts, it is commonly used to report recent events or achievements that have relevance to the present.
Scientists have discovered a new species of frog in the rainforest.
EN: The relative clause 'that can predict cancer survival from one photograph' uses the relative pronoun 'that' as the subject to modify the antecedent noun phrase 'an AI tool'.
She designed a mobile app that tracks daily water intake.
EN: In modern journalism, 'AI tool' is widely used instead of technical phrases like 'machine learning model' to make scientific advancements accessible to general readers. Additionally, 'the United States' is frequently used as a formal geographic qualifier in medical news reporting.
EN: Passive Voice in Past Simple (was/were + past participle): Used when the focus is on the recipient of the action ('The system') rather than the doer, or when attributing the creation of something using 'by + agent'.
The software was designed by a team of university students.
EN: Appositive (Noun Phrase in Apposition): A noun phrase placed next to another noun to rename or describe it. Here, 'a nonprofit healthcare system in Massachusetts' explains what 'Mass General Brigham' is.
Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is one of the most populous cities in the world.
EN: Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare) is a renowned Boston-based integrated healthcare network affiliated with Harvard Medical School. In American news writing, such well-known organizations are often immediately followed by an appositive clause (e.g., 'a nonprofit healthcare system...') to provide essential context for national or international readers who may not recognize the institutional name.
EN: The passive structure 'be trained on' is commonly used in artificial intelligence and machine learning contexts to describe the dataset or material used to develop an AI model.
The speech recognition software was trained on thousands of hours of audio recordings.
EN: Stacked prepositional phrases ('of faces', 'from people', 'of many ages and ethnicities') function as successive post-modifiers narrowing down the noun 'photographs'.
She received a letter of recommendation from a professor of computer science.
EN: In modern AI research, particularly in medicine, emphasizing diverse training data ('many ages and ethnicities') is crucial. Historical medical AI models often faced bias when trained predominantly on homogeneous populations (such as Caucasian individuals), leading to poorer accuracy for minorities.
EN: Non-defining relative clauses with 'which' can refer back to an entire preceding clause or concept rather than just the immediate noun, adding explanatory comments.
The test measures heart rate variability, which indicates overall cardiovascular fitness.
EN: The prepositional phrase 'rather than' is used to express a preference or contrast, meaning 'instead of' or 'as opposed to'.
They decided to focus on prevention rather than cure.
EN: In medicine and gerontology, 'biological age' refers to the physiological state of a person's cells and tissues, contrasting with 'chronological age' (the number of years lived, referred to colloquially here as 'real age').
EN: The sentence begins with a present participle phrase ('Using this estimate') functioning as an adverbial modifier of manner or means, explaining how the main action is accomplished. The logical subject of the participle must match the subject of the main clause ('the system').
Using new data, researchers can track weather patterns more accurately.
EN: The phrase 'the chances of survival for patients with cancer' demonstrates stacked prepositional phrases: 'of survival' modifies 'chances' (explaining what kind of chances), and 'for patients with cancer' specifies who those chances apply to.
Doctors evaluated the risk of infection for people with diabetes.
EN: The correlative structure 'one ..., and the other ...' is used to contrast two specific items or entities out of a group of two.
One sister loves classical music, and the other prefers jazz.
EN: Prepositional phrases indicating means or source: 'through' denotes the intermediate mechanism or medium, while 'from' indicates the starting point or direct data source.
He learned English through songs, while she learned it from books.
EN: In scientific reporting, AI systems or models are often personified or referenced concisely as 'one ... and the other' to compare two distinct computational approaches without repeating cumbersome technical jargon.
EN: The sentence uses the simple past passive voice ('were published'). Passive voice is formed with 'be' + past participle, shifting the focus to the action or the object receiving the action (details of the research) rather than the agent who published them.
The results of the experiment were published in a scientific journal.
EN: The prepositional phrase 'of the research' functions as an adjectival modifier modifying the plural noun 'Details'. Because the head noun 'Details' is plural, the plural verb 'were' is used (subject-verb agreement).
Details of the accident were reported on the news.
EN: The Lancet is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals, founded in 1823. 'Lancet Digital Health' is an open-access monthly specialty journal within the Lancet family focusing on digital technologies in healthcare.
EN: The verb 'suggest' is followed here by a 'that'-clause functioning as a noun clause (object of 'suggests'). It reports a finding or hypothesis rather than a command.
Recent data suggests that regular exercise improves mental health.
EN: The verb 'help' can be followed by an object and a bare infinitive (infinitive without 'to'), i.e., 'help + someone + (do) something'. Here, two bare infinitives ('check' and 'guide') are coordinated by 'and'.
This app helps users track their expenses and save money.
EN: The casual term 'selfie' (a self-portrait photograph taken with a smartphone) has become accepted in formal medical and tech reporting to highlight how ubiquitous, accessible consumer technology can intersect with high-level healthcare.
Key vocabulary words with IPA pronunciation, definitions, example sentences, and interactive quizzes.
Phrases with type tags, bilingual definitions, usage notes, and example sentences.
A measure of how old a person seems based on their physical health and condition, rather than their calendar age.
The likelihood or probability of staying alive, especially when facing a serious illness or danger.
To use a specific set of data to teach a machine learning or artificial intelligence system.
The organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver healthcare services to meet the health needs of target populations.