Cardiology

Anticipating heart failure with machine learning

Every year, roughly one out of eight U.S. deaths is caused at least in part by heart failure. One of acute heart failure's most common warning signs is excess fluid in the lungs, a condition known as pulmonary edema.

Dentistry

Fruit roll-ups shown to improve dental X-ray quality

A study published in the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences compared 270 dental X-rays, from people who were told to hold their tongues against the roof of their mouths throughout the procedure. Radiographers managed to ...

Dentistry

Artificial intelligence assists in dental care and jaw surgery

A dentist inserting a tooth implant must know the exact location of the nerve canal in the patient's lower jaw to plan the size and position of the implant, along with the overall procedure. This requires X-ray images in ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI diagnoses lung disease based on X-rays

Skoltech researchers have trained a neural network to search for lung pathologies on X-ray images and come up with brief verbal descriptions to accompany them. This task is currently performed by physicians, and it takes ...

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