Oncology & Cancer
A smart bra for detecting early-stage breast cancer
EPFL students teamed up with startup IcosaMed to develop the SmartBra—the first piece of smart clothing that can be used for cancer prevention.
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Using COVID-19 patient data to train machine learning models for healthcare
One short week ago, I called on governments to use existing data and proven machine learning and AI techniques to help healthcare systems combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health informatics
Supercomputing speed proves crucial in the race against COVID-19
In the battle against COVID-19, The University of Texas at Austin's supercomputers are at the front lines.
Apr 03, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus: Country comparisons are pointless unless we account for testing biases
Suppose we wanted to estimate how many car owners there are in the UK and how many of those own a Ford Fiesta, but we only have data on those people who visited Ford car showrooms in the last year. If 10% of the showroom ...
Apr 03, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Artificial intelligence to predict which COVID-19 patients need ventilators
Experts at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have begun using artificial intelligence to create computer models that calculate the risk of a corona patient's needing intensive care or a ventilator.
Apr 03, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers develop a computer simulator that recreates the spread of COVID-19 in Europe
A team of Spanish researchers have designed and validated a simulator to enable study of the evolution of the COVID-19 illness in Spain and in all Europe, based on parameters such as climate, social distancing policies and ...
Apr 03, 2020
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Health informatics
Device that tracks location of nurses re-purposed to record patient mobility
By repurposing badges originally designed to locate nurses and other hospital staff, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they can precisely monitor how patients in the hospital are walking outside of their rooms, a well-known ...
Apr 02, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus overview: Here's the app you were looking for
There is nothing quite like a quarantine to make one itch to do something useful. Three Ph.D. students from the Department of Mathematical Sciences have done just that.
Apr 02, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research: Lockdowns need to last more than six weeks to contain COVID-19
People around the world are wondering how long COVID-restrictions have to last in order to curtail the pandemic.
Apr 01, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New York researchers rush to capture 3-D data map of COVID-19 'surface vectors'
New York University researchers are in the field capturing highly detailed three-dimensional data on human movements and behaviors—particularly around medical facilities, public transportation systems, and essential services—to ...
Apr 01, 2020
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