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Self-Monitoring Imager for Diabetic Neuropathy [video]

by Bruce Brown | May 9, 2018 | General News, Medical

Diabetes can lead to nerve damage in the feet, an unwelcome but not uncommon related condition called diabetic neuropathy. Significant complications can result from having no feeling in your feet; the worst and most dreaded of which is lower limb amputation....

Stored Brain Waves Can Reconstruct Images [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

How long does it take to make a good impression? According to new research from the University of Toronto at Scarborough, the correct answer is about 170 milliseconds or 0.17 seconds. Neuroscientists in Assistant Professor Adrian Nestor’s laboratory at the...

Smartphone Device Uses AI to Detect Diabetic Retinopathy

by Bruce Brown | March 22, 2018 | General News, Medical

We hear often about the distressingly high incidence of Type 2 diabetes in the U.S. In a 2017 report, the CDC estimated 9.4% of the population or about 30.3 million Americans have diabetes. The World Health Organization’s 2016 Global Report on Diabetes estimated...

Deep Learning Predicts Heart Disease from Retina Images

by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical

The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...

Store and Forward Telemedicine Improves Specialist Access [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 22, 2018 | General News, Medical

Conflicting challenges strain the U.S. healthcare system. The cost of care continues to rise while medical and wellness organizations struggle to provide comprehensive health services to all areas. Remote areas are often underserved by medical professionals,...