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Broader application of artificial intelligence in pituitary healthcare
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1 Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai , China
2 Department of Psychiatry, Tongji Hospital of Tongji University, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai , China
3 Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai , China
4 Department of Endocrinology & Rare Diseases, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei , China
5 Hebei Key Laboratory of Rare Diseases, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei , China
JCBP, 026220026 https://doi.org/10.36922/JCBP026220026
Received: 27 May 2026 | Revised: 20 August 2026 | Accepted: 24 September 2026 | Published online: 30 October 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Funding
This work was supported by the National Programs for Brain Science and Brain-like Intelligence Technology of China (Grant No. 2021ZD0200800) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Grant No. 19ZR1427700).
Conflict of interest
Lei Cai and Songyun Zhang serve as Editorial Board Members of this journal. The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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