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| Medical: Intelligent Walker Designed to Assist the Elderly and Those in Medical Rehabilit |
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A team of researchers from the Departments of Software, Automatic Control, Strength of MaMechanical Engineering, Materials and Structural Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), led by Ulises Cortés and Antonio B. Martínez, has designed an intelligent walker (i-Walker) that goes a step beyond conventional walkers as it can communicate with the user, think for itself and react to the environment.
The device can understand a set of voice commands and can be activated by means of simple verbal instructions given by the user (e.g., "take me to the kitchen"). To do this, it includes elements for independent movement and a personalized intelligent software agent.
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Posted by Anxiety35 on Monday, November 10 @ 12:18:02 PST (744 reads)
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| Medical: Prostate Cancer Treatment Determined by AI |
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Prostate cancer is the most widespread type of cancer affecting men and the second most common cause of terminal cancer in the UK.
Despite the prevalence of the disease, very little is known about its direct causes and deciding on a disease management plan for a patient can be difficult.
To address this, a research project being undertaken by the School of Computing at the Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen is using artificial intelligence to assist physicians in making their decision.
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Posted by Anxiety35 on Wednesday, August 20 @ 19:38:06 PDT (1536 reads)
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| Medical: Autonomous Tabletop Robotic Surgery At Duke |
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An autonomous tabletop robot surgeon has taken its first steps toward reality at Duke University; the device could have immediate results in making some current medical procedures safer for patients.
Engineers started with a tabletop robot that used 3-D ultrasound for vision; the 3-D images were then processed in real time, with the computer's brain directing the actions of the robot.
"In a number of tasks, the computer was able to direct the robot's actions," said Stephen Smith, director of the Duke University Ultrasound Transducer Group and senior member of the research team. "We believe that this is the first proof-of-concept for this approach. Given that we achieved these early results with a rudimentary robot and a basic artificial intelligence program, the technology will advance to the point where robots – without the guidance of the doctor – can someday operate on people."
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| Medical: Robots Are Ready For Surgery |
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What do you call a surgeon who operates without scalpels, stitching tools or a powerful headlamp to light the patient’s insides? A better doctor, according to a growing number of surgeons who prefer to hand over much of the blood-and-guts portion of their work to medical robots controlled from computer consoles.
Many urologists performing prostate surgery view the precise, tremor-free movements of a robot as the best way to spare nerves crucial to bladder control and sexual potency. A robot’s ability to deftly handle small tools may lead to a less invasive procedure and faster recovery for a patient. Robots also can protect surgeons from physical stress and exposure to X-rays that may force them into premature retirement.
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| Medical: Adept Tech. to Develop Surgical Robotic Systems |
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Adept Technology and Prosurgics agreed to collaborate on the design and development of the next generation of Prosurgics' surgical robotic systems for image-guided and navigated neurological and soft tissue surgery.
"The surgical robotics market requires very high precision products with no room for error," said Rob Bucher, Adept's chief executive officer. "Our goal in working with Prosurgics is to create technology platforms that can be used in a range of surgical systems thereby lowering these systems' total cost of ownership and expanding the reach of our technology throughout the surgical market. Prosurgics' technology and commercial strategy is complementary to our own and will strengthen Adept's position in this important high growth market allowing us to more quickly address the market."
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| Medical: Cancer Diagnosis with Data Mining and AI |
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Miraculins Inc., a biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery and development of diagnostic tools and therapeutic products for cancer, is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Diagnos Inc., a leader in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, to provide services towards the development of Miraculins' cancer diagnostic discovery programs.
"I am confident and excited about the application of our company's technology to the field of bio-diagnostics", said Mr. Andre Larente, President of Diagnos. "Our technology has been designed to accommodate the type of complex information that Miraculins is working with and I believe strongly that it will be of great value to the organization. The Diagnos team of specialists has always wanted to participate in the field of Cancer Research because we believe that our technology can help identify, in the early stages, some of the key elements the industry needs to track. Using advanced data mining and artificial intelligence to analyze existing data from patients, we can learn to identify the key invariants required for predicting some of these diseases."
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| Medical: Using AI for Biomarkers Discovery in Prostate Cancer Test |
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DIAGNOS inc., a
leader in the use of artificial intelligence ("AI") and advanced
knowledge extraction techniques, is pleased to announce today that
Miraculins will be using DIAGNOS technology towards the development of
its cancer diagnostic discovery programs.
"I am confident and excited about the application of our
Corporation's technology to the field of bio-diagnostics", said Andre
Larente, President of DIAGNOS. "Our technology has been designed to
accommodate to the complexity of the data that Miraculins is working
with and I strongly believe that it will be of great value to the
organization. The team of specialists at DIAGNOS has always wanted to
participate in the field of cancer research because we believe that our
technology can help identify, in the early stages, some of the key
elements the industry needs to track. Using advanced data mining and
Artificial Intelligence to analyze existing data from patients, we can
learn to identify the key invariants required for detecting this
disease with an acceptable sensibility and specificity."
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| Medical: AI System Predicts Medicine's Hidden Powers |
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Treatments for new or drug-resistant infectious diseases may already be in our medicine cabinets, say the molecular biologists responsible for developing an artificial-intelligence system that can predict unknown antibiotic properties of existing drugs.
The hope is that the work will result in an armoury of new treatments that can be rushed into service when standard treatments stop being effective or new pathogens arise.
"In the case of new infectious diseases, there might be no time to develop a completely new drug from the ground up," says Artem Cherkasov of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, who made the proposal this week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston, Massachusetts.
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In an assisted living home on the outskirts of Portland, Ore., a retired nuclear engineer who suffers from Alzheimer's disease gets out of bed in the middle of the night. His daughter, a night owl in San Diego who monitors her dad's location, vital signs and activities via a secure Web connection, sees in real time that he has left his room and gone to the nearby kitchen.
"I see Pop's been conducting midnight ice cream raids again," she quips in an e-mail to her siblings the next day.
A couple of hundred miles away, in a test apartment in Seattle, a computer engineer perfects technology he hopes might someday allow people like his aging parents to stay in their homes years longer.
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