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Using AI to adapt and personalize live radio for people living alone with dementia

A £2.7m project is to use artificial intelligence to adapt and personalize live radio, with the aim of transforming life for people living alone with dementia.

21 May 2019

Electron microscopy project could revolutionize the search for new drugs

The search for new drugs to combat diseases more effectively could be revolutionized through a new £30 million electron microscopy project.

17 May 2019

AI coach feasible and useful for behavioral counseling of teens in weight-loss program

Researchers at Nemours Children's Health System have found that an artificial intelligence behavioral coach, nicknamed Tess, is feasible and useful for behavioral counseling of adolescent patients in a weight management program.

17 May 2019

Researchers develop automatic diagnosis system for neurological diseases using MEG

A team of researchers from Osaka University and The University of Tokyo developed MNet, an automatic diagnosis system for neurological diseases using magnetoencephalography, demonstrating the possibility of making automatic neurological disease diagnoses using MEG.

17 May 2019

Using artificial intelligence to identify socially isolated prostate cancer patients

We fare better during health challenges when we have a little help from our friends, family and community. And perhaps an assist from artificial intelligence.

17 May 2019

Penn Medicine launches free, 'self-service' AI tool for data analytics

The Penn Medicine Institute for Biomedical Informatics has launched a free, open-source automated machine learning system for data analysis that is designed for anyone to use, from a high school student looking to gain insight on their baseball team's statistics, to trained researchers looking for associations between cancer and environmental factors.

16 May 2019

First smartphone app to detect childhood ear infection

Researchers at the University of Washington have created a smartphone app that can detect ear infections in children, a development that could lead to a new screening tool for use at home or in clinical settings.

16 May 2019

Scientists unravel how intelligent neural network predicts the functions of proteins

Intelligent virtual companions like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have long become integrated into our everyday lives. And intelligent computational programs, so-called algorithms, have also evolved as an integral tool in scientific research.

16 May 2019

Ethical and social implications of embodied AI in mental health care

Interactions with artificial intelligence will become an increasingly common aspect of our lives. A team at the Technical University of Munich has now completed the first study of how "embodied AI" can help treat mental illness.

15 May 2019

New approach to identify faster, more effective TB drug treatment regimens

Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly though curable disease. Each year about 10 million people develop active cases, and 1.6 million people die. In addition, about 1.7 billion people around the world are infected with TB bacteria, which can lie dormant for weeks to years, then become active and cause disease in up to 10 percent of those who are infected.

15 May 2019

Machine learning tool immensely scales up Alzheimer's research

Researchers at UC Davis and UC San Francisco have found a way to teach a computer to precisely detect one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease in human brain tissue, delivering a proof of concept for a machine-learning approach to distinguishing critical markers of the disease.

15 May 2019

New machine-learning approach discovers mechanism that helps antibiotics kill bacteria

Most antibiotics work by interfering with critical functions such as DNA replication or construction of the bacterial cell wall.

10 May 2019

BioCity invests in high-power analytics platform for swimming and triathlon athletes

BioCity today announced an investment in INCUS Performance, a sports technology start-up that is helping athletes to train better using data.

9 May 2019

AI can predict breast cancer risk up to 5 years before diagnosis

A team of researchers at MIT have developed an AI model that can predict breast cancer from mammogram images up to five years before a diagnosis can be made by doctors.

9 May 2019

New Marko system could provide insights into people's behavior and health

We live in a world of wireless signals flowing around us and bouncing off our bodies.

9 May 2019

Clarigent Health partners with The Children's Home of Cincinnati to test decision support app

Clarigent Health, a technology company building a clinical decision support tool for mental health professionals, is partnering with The Children's Home of Cincinnati, a leading provider of education and mental health treatment for children facing significant challenges, to complete a pilot study using Clarigent's mobile decision support app.

7 May 2019

AI can detect signs of anxiety and depression in speech patterns of children

A machine learning algorithm can detect signs of anxiety and depression in the speech patterns of young children, potentially providing a fast and easy way of diagnosing conditions that are difficult to spot and often overlooked in young people, according to new research published in the Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

6 May 2019

JPND initiative releases updated global Research and Innovation Strategy

The EU Joint Program - Neurodegenerative Disease Research initiative has launched its updated global Research and Innovation Strategy, to provide a unified framework for the support of world class research into neurodegenerative diseases.

6 May 2019

Many patients and the public have low awareness of heart failure

Low awareness of heart failure among patients and the public is highlighted in surveys to be presented during Heart Failure 2019 the annual congress of the Heart Failure Association, a branch of the European Society of Cardiology, taking place in Athens, Greece from 25 to 28 May.

6 May 2019

MIT researchers develop novel method for analyzing massive cell datasets

Data-sampling method makes "sketches" of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types.

3 May 2019

Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Latest Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Using AI to adapt and personalize live radio for people living alone with dementia

Electron microscopy project could revolutionize the search for new drugs

AI coach feasible and useful for behavioral counseling of teens in weight-loss program

Researchers develop automatic diagnosis system for neurological diseases using MEG

Using artificial intelligence to identify socially isolated prostate cancer patients

Penn Medicine launches free, 'self-service' AI tool for data analytics

First smartphone app to detect childhood ear infection

Scientists unravel how intelligent neural network predicts the functions of proteins

Ethical and social implications of embodied AI in mental health care

New approach to identify faster, more effective TB drug treatment regimens

Machine learning tool immensely scales up Alzheimer's research

New machine-learning approach discovers mechanism that helps antibiotics kill bacteria

BioCity invests in high-power analytics platform for swimming and triathlon athletes

AI can predict breast cancer risk up to 5 years before diagnosis

New Marko system could provide insights into people's behavior and health

Clarigent Health partners with The Children's Home of Cincinnati to test decision support app

AI can detect signs of anxiety and depression in speech patterns of children

JPND initiative releases updated global Research and Innovation Strategy

Many patients and the public have low awareness of heart failure

MIT researchers develop novel method for analyzing massive cell datasets

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Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Latest Artificial Intelligence News and Research

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Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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