Artificial Intelligence News and Research

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Intensive Care Medicine

Intensive care medicine is a young specialty that deals with the medical treatment of the sickest patients in the hospital. Intensive care medicine doctors are called intensivists and are expert physicians with special skills in the management of organ failure.

29 Aug 2017

Undergraduates earn top prize for developing new tool to detect Alzheimer’s disease

A team of seven University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering undergraduates earned the top prize in this year's National Institutes of Health Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams challenge for their efforts to develop low-cost tools to diagnose Alzheimer's disease before patients show symptoms.

29 Aug 2017

New app could lead to earlier detection of pancreatic cancer by snapping a smartphone selfie

Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses -; with a five-year survival rate of 9 percent -; in part because there are no telltale symptoms or non-invasive screening tools to catch a tumor before it spreads.

29 Aug 2017

Disease diagnostic tools win top honors in DEBUT challenge

Tools to diagnose Alzheimer's disease and latent tuberculosis are among the winning projects in the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge, a biomedical engineering design prize competition for teams of undergraduate students.

26 Aug 2017

New optical imaging tool accurately measures detailed brain activity in neuroscience lab

Using lasers and photodetectors, a new optical brain-imaging tool is providing a never-before-seen look inside your head.

23 Aug 2017

New technology employs machine-learning software for early detection of melanoma

New technology being developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Sunnybrook Research Institute is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect melanoma skin cancer earlier.

23 Aug 2017

Artificial intelligence technique recognizes signatures of dementia two years before onset

Imagine if doctors could determine, many years in advance, who is likely to develop dementia. Such prognostic capabilities would give patients and their families time to plan and manage treatment and care.

22 Aug 2017

Researchers explore ways for computers to help improve patient care

Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor all of these data for multiple patients while making real-time treatment decisions, especially when data is documented inconsistently across hospitals.

21 Aug 2017

NNI, NTU collaborate to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions

The National Neuroscience Institute and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore are collaborating to develop innovative technologies to better diagnose and treat patients with neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease and brain injuries.

21 Aug 2017

Scientists show how self-learning algorithm decodes human brain signals

Filtering information for search engines, acting as an opponent during a board game or recognizing images: Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human intelligence in certain tasks.

18 Aug 2017

BU scientist wins $231,000 AHA award to improve cardiovascular therapies

Vijaya B. Kolachalama, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, has received a Scientist Development grant from the American Heart Association.

16 Aug 2017

Insilico and GSK collaborate to enhance drug discovery process

Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) research for drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research announced today that it has formed a collaboration with GSK to explore how Insilico's AI capability can enhance its drug discovery process.

16 Aug 2017

Wireless remote monitoring: the future for patients with atrial fibrillation?

Peerbridge Health has the vision to remove all wires associated with monitoring patients. For example, typically, electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring systems have a multitude of wires. They started building a wireless ECG monitoring system called the Peerbridge Cor™ to improve ECG monitoring from the ground up.

9 Aug 2017

Social media images can be used to identify depression, says study

New research published in the EPJ Data Science, suggests that people, just like signaling their sadness through behavior and body language, can also reflect their depression through images in their social media.

8 Aug 2017

Biological bypass found safe for patients with coronary artery disease

A new gene therapy that targets the heart and requires only one treatment session has been found safe for patients with coronary artery disease, according to a successful trial carried out in Finland.

8 Aug 2017

New device uses AI algorithm to monitor sleep with radio waves

More than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and diseases including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's can also disrupt sleep.

7 Aug 2017

Scientists develop new machine learning approach for synthesis, crystallization of polyoxometalates

Who is the better experimentalist, a human or a robot? When it comes to exploring synthetic and crystallization conditions for inorganic gigantic molecules, actively learning machines are clearly ahead, as demonstrated by British Scientists in an experiment with polyoxometalates published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

4 Aug 2017

Advanced statistical modeling and analytic tools can make health care, medical data more meaningful

Recognizing that administrative health care databases can be a valuable, yet challenging, tool in the nation's ongoing pursuit of personalized medicine, statisticians Liangyuan Hu and Madhu Mazumdar of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed advanced statistical modeling and analytic tools that can make health care and medical data more meaningful.

4 Aug 2017

UAMS scientists awarded $422,610 NSF grant to study regulation of emotion

A team of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences research scientists recently received a $422,610 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the mechanisms of control of emotional responses of men and women using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

3 Aug 2017

Scientists receive NSF grant to develop new methods for decoding neural data

Research and new technologies have dramatically expanded the amount of data that can be captured from the brain over the past few years. The challenge now is to determine what that data can tell us.

1 Aug 2017

Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Latest Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Intensive Care Medicine

Undergraduates earn top prize for developing new tool to detect Alzheimer’s disease

New app could lead to earlier detection of pancreatic cancer by snapping a smartphone selfie

Disease diagnostic tools win top honors in DEBUT challenge

New optical imaging tool accurately measures detailed brain activity in neuroscience lab

New technology employs machine-learning software for early detection of melanoma

Artificial intelligence technique recognizes signatures of dementia two years before onset

Researchers explore ways for computers to help improve patient care

NNI, NTU collaborate to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions

Scientists show how self-learning algorithm decodes human brain signals

BU scientist wins $231,000 AHA award to improve cardiovascular therapies

Insilico and GSK collaborate to enhance drug discovery process

Wireless remote monitoring: the future for patients with atrial fibrillation?

Social media images can be used to identify depression, says study

Biological bypass found safe for patients with coronary artery disease

New device uses AI algorithm to monitor sleep with radio waves

Scientists develop new machine learning approach for synthesis, crystallization of polyoxometalates

Advanced statistical modeling and analytic tools can make health care, medical data more meaningful

UAMS scientists awarded $422,610 NSF grant to study regulation of emotion

Scientists receive NSF grant to develop new methods for decoding neural data

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