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Scientists Devise a Robust Design Tool for Soft Assistive Robotic Wearables

Soft, pneumatic actuators are not a term people hear every day, but chances are that people could have utilized them at some point.

4 May 2022

AI-Enabled ECG Helps Determine Future Risk of Cognitive Decline and Stroke

One-third of ischemic strokes, the most common type of stroke, are caused by atrial fibrillation, the most familiar cardiac rhythm abnormality. However, since many patients are asymptomatic, atrial fibrillation is underdiagnosed.

3 May 2022

Single-Lead ECG Tracings from an Apple Watch Effectively Identifies Patients with a Weak Heart Pump

Patients with a weak heart pump were identified using single-lead ECG tracings from an Apple Watch inferred by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm developed at Mayo Clinic.

3 May 2022

Study Shows Mild Cognitive Impairment Precedes Alzheimer’s Disease Using AI

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in people all over the world. Although there is no treatment, early discovery is essential for developing effective therapies before the disease progresses irreversibly.

28 Apr 2022

AI Helps to Detect Early Stage Pancreatic Cancer

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that properly identified who would get pancreatic cancer depending on what their CT scan results looked like years before they were diagnosed.

27 Apr 2022

A New Method of Using AI to Predict Cancer from Patient Data Confidentially

Artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of examining huge volumes of data, such as trial results or images, and identifying patterns frequently unnoticeable by humans, rendering it extremely beneficial in accelerating disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

26 Apr 2022

AI Platform Assists Physicians to Assess the Efficacy of Chemotherapy in Bladder Cancer Treatment

An artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform, developed in a multi-institutional collaborative research, enhanced the evaluations of providers regarding whether bladder cancer patients had a total response to chemotherapy treatment prior to a radical cystectomy (bladder removal surgery).

25 Apr 2022

AI Helps Decrease Miss Rate of Precancerous Polyps in Cancer Screening

According to a team of international researchers headed by Mayo Clinic, artificial intelligence lowered the rate at which precancerous polyps were overlooked in colorectal cancer screening twofold.

19 Apr 2022

Researchers Demonstrate the Flexible Use of AI in Home, Industry, and Healthcare

Is it possible for robots to change their working techniques to complete difficult operations? Scientists at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have created a new form of AI that can adjust to accomplish tasks in a changing environment by monitoring human behavior.

15 Apr 2022

Modified Telerobotic Joystick to Treat Patients Recovering From Stroke

Patients that have suffered a stroke could receive critical early treatment in the crucial window shortly after experiencing an attack. This is thanks to a joystick-based system developed by MIT researchers that would give surgeons remote access to patients.

14 Apr 2022