by Conn Hastings | Jul 8, 2021 | Oncology, Radiology, Urology
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, created an AI system that can identify prostate cancer during routine CT scans. It is typically difficult to spot prostate cancer in CT images, and the radiation makes CT unsuitable as a screening modality....
by Conn Hastings | Jul 8, 2021 | Diagnostics, Medicine
Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, have developed a system to monitor the severity of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. The system includes a commercial chest strap sensor that measures heart...
by Conn Hastings | Jul 8, 2021 | Diagnostics, Medicine, Nanomedicine, Psychiatry
Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a microchip that can perform real-time measurements of stress hormone levels in a drop of blood. The technology could provide a replacement for bulky and expensive lab tests for such hormones, and allow patients to...
by Conn Hastings | Jul 6, 2021 | Diagnostics, Materials, Medicine, Sports Medicine
Researchers at MIT have developed an e-skin technology that contains artificial sweat ducts. The ducts prevent sweat accumulation underneath the e-skin, helping to prevent interference with built-in sensors. Incorporating a kirigami-style design, the material conforms...
by RB | Jun 10, 2021 | Clinical Technology, SysML
One of the implementation dreams of enterprise algorithm developers is the ability to implement various specific data implementation algorithms on a defined data stream. The ability to encapsulate data feed ingestion, operational dynamics of the algorithm, and the...
by RB | May 19, 2021 | Portfolio
Bionet is a sensor platform that is designed to be a link between the patient and device sensors and the rest of the...
by RB | May 3, 2021 | Data Science, Data Science
One of the problems with feeding big-data of physiological data is the methodology used for transporting the data to the...
by RB | May 3, 2021 | EMG
The use of robotic prosthetic limbs is getting more widespread in society. Even relatively simple limb replacements are associated with an increase in quality of life, and we can just imagine how the quality of life would be upgraded by introducing...
by Emily Waltz | Apr 30, 2021 | Clinical Technology
How much does it itch? That’s a question doctors often ask people with eczema and other itch-inducing ailments, but the answer is subjective and hard to quantify; like being asked to rate one’s pain using one of those emoji-face pain scales. Today researchers...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 30, 2021 | Materials, Neurology, Neurosurgery
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) often lead to cognitive disabilities and permanent neural tissue damage, for which effective therapies do not exist. The serious cognitive impairments that patients experience and the burden on caretakers can be enormous, necessitating a...