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3D Structural-Sensing Robots Being Developed and Tested at SFU

Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future. Who knows, maybe a medical robot can prescribe your medicine someday? That's the idea behind 3D structural-sensing robots being developed and tested at Simon Fraser University by Woo Soo Kim, associate professor in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.

1 Mar 2021

Transparent, Reproducible AI Tool for Health Information Analysis

Clinical research necessitates the mining of data to gain crucial insights. Machine learning, which involves developing algorithms to identify patterns, finds it hard to do this in the case of data related to health records since information of this kind is neither static nor collected regularly.

26 Feb 2021

Deep Learning may Guide Treatment Decisions for Lung Cancer Patients

Doctors and healthcare workers may one day use a machine learning model, called deep learning, to guide their treatment decisions for lung cancer patients, according to a team of Penn State Great Valley researchers.

19 Feb 2021

AI-Based Tool may Help Doctors Better Prepare Patients for Surgery

A new tool using an artificial intelligence platform may help doctors better prepare patients for surgery.

18 Feb 2021

A Machine-Learning Approach to Repurpose Existing Drugs for Covid-19

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare.

16 Feb 2021

Machine Learning Algorithm Performs on Par with Dermatologists

A study has now been presented that boosts the evidence for using AI solutions in skin cancer diagnostics. With an algorithm they devised themselves, scientists at the University of Gothenburg show the capacity of technology to perform at the same level as dermatologists in assessing the severity of skin melanoma.

15 Feb 2021

Smartphone-Based VR App Helps Treat Fear of Heights

Scientists from the University of Basel have designed a new virtual reality (VR) app for smartphones to decrease the fear of heights.

12 Feb 2021

INTEGRA’s Pipetting Robot Supports PCR-based HPV Screening Across France (661-20)

Labs are increasingly choosing INTEGRA Biosciences’ liquid handling instruments to help them address growing workloads associated with Human papilloma virus (HPV) screening.

From INTEGRA Biosciences Ltd 12 Feb 2021

New AI Algorithm Better Predicts Mortality Risk of Patients

At Geisinger, scientists have discovered that a computer algorithm trained with echocardiogram videos of the heart has the ability to predict mortality within a year.

9 Feb 2021

Versius Surgical Robotic System Launched in Australia

CMR Surgical (CMR), in partnership with LifeHealthcare, today announced the launch of its Versius® Surgical Robotic System in Australia. Macquarie University Hospital – a leading private teaching hospital based in Sydney – is the first to use the system following approval from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in late 2019, which allows Versius to be used in a broad range of laparoscopic (minimal access or keyhole) procedures.

8 Feb 2021