MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection
VaxSeer, an AI system that predicts dominant influenza strains and recommends vaccine compositions months in advance. The open-access study detailing the tool appears in Nature Medicine. In a 10-year retrospective analysis, VaxSeer’s picks outperformed the World Health Organization’s selections in nine of ten A/H3N2 seasons and matched or beat them in six of ten A/H1N1 seasons. Its predicted coverage scores also aligned with vaccine effectiveness data from the CDC, Canada’s Sentinel network, and Europe’s I-MOVE program.
