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Machine learning can monitor and predict the progression of multiple sclerosis

Monitoring the progression of multiple sclerosis-related gait issues can be challenging in adults over 50 years old, requiring a clinician to differentiate between problems related to MS and other age-related issues.

29 Mar 2021

New smartphone application screens for carpal tunnel syndrome

A Japanese research group combined motion analysis that uses smartphone application and machine learning that uses an anomaly detection method, thereby developing a technique to easily screen for carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome is common amongst middle-aged women.

29 Mar 2021

Combined clinical and genomic data better predicts COVID-19 severity

The current COVID-19 outbreak is one of the worst pandemics in history and has claimed millions of lives across the globe, overwhelmed healthcare systems, and created unprecedented socio-economic ramifications.

28 Mar 2021

Combination of X-rays and AI can serve as rapid diagnostic tool for COVID-19

X-rays, first used clinically in the late 1890s, could be a leading-edge diagnostic tool for COVID-19 patients with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a team of researchers in Brazil who taught a computer program, through various machine learning methods, to detect COVID-19 in chest X-rays with 95.6 to 98.5% accuracy.

26 Mar 2021

New "machine learning" method helps analyze large amounts of biological data

Studying genetic material on a cellular level, such as single-cell RNA-sequencing, can provide scientists with a detailed, high-resolution view of biological processes at work.

26 Mar 2021

New machine learning algorithm ranks drugs based on efficacy in reducing cancer cell growth

Researchers from the Queen Mary University of London have developed a machine learning algorithm that ranks drugs based on their efficacy in reducing cancer cell growth.

25 Mar 2021

World-first treatment for oral cancer

Professor Mark McGurk speaks to News-Medical about his groundbreaking research that has led to the discovery of a world-first treatment for oral cancer.

25 Mar 2021

Anabolic-androgenic steroids can have deleterious effects on the brain

Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), a synthetic version of the male sex hormone testosterone, are sometimes used as a medical treatment for hormone imbalance. But the vast majority of AAS is used to enhance athletic performance or build muscle because when paired with strength training.

25 Mar 2021

Researchers are testing wearable devices to detect early Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases

The development of a wearable to detect early Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases years before symptoms show has taken a step closer to reality today, as UK charity Alzheimer's Research UK announces a partnership with Boston University that will see the first digital data flowing into its global Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (EDoN) initiative.

25 Mar 2021

Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging technique can facilitate the diagnosis of fatty liver diseases

Excessive fat accumulation in the liver can lead to serious medical problems, including liver failure. Thus, understanding the distribution of lipids within the liver is a critical step in diagnosing fatty liver diseases.

25 Mar 2021

Artificial neural network for automatically decoding and interpreting cortical signals

Russian scientists have proposed a new algorithm for automatic decoding and interpreting the decoder weights, which can be used both in brain-computer interfaces and in fundamental research. The results of the study were published in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

23 Mar 2021

New AI platform can help assess vascular diseases

An international team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that could one day be used in a system to assess vascular diseases, which are characterised by the abnormal condition of blood vessels.

23 Mar 2021

Study may help develop effective biosensors for non-invasive diagnosis of prostate cancer

The efficacy of biosensors used in clinical tests depends critically on the surface of the device on which the biorecognition molecules are immobilized.

23 Mar 2021

Ai helps identify critical interactions for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding to ACE2

Recently, researchers from the US employed multiple-µs molecular dynamic simulations to compare the relative dynamics, stabilities, and energy differences between the SARS-CoV receptor-binding domain (RBD)-ACE2 and SARS-CoV-2 RBD-ACE2 complexes. The study is published on the preprint server, bioRxiv.

23 Mar 2021

Computational analysis helps identify hematological malignancies that elude the human eye

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a disease of the stem cells in the bone marrow, which disturbs the maturing and differentiation of blood cells. Annually, some 200 Finns are diagnosed with MDS, which can develop into acute leukemia. Globally, the incidence of MDS is 4 cases per 100,000 person years.

22 Mar 2021

AI-based system for real-time prediction of complications in intensive care units

Life-threatening situations occur time and again in an intensive care unit. To make sure that doctors can intervene in time, a team at the German Heart Center Berlin has developed AI-based software that regularly evaluates all monitoring data and alerts staff before a critical situation is reached.

22 Mar 2021

RADLogics AI-Powered COVID-19 solution reduces turnaround time

Moscow Center for Diagnostics & Telemedicine and RADLogics shared the results of a large-scale study (Moscow Experiment on the Computer Vision for the Analysis of Medical Images - mosmed.ai, NCT04489992) conducted by the Research and Practical Clinical Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies of the Moscow Health Care Department.

22 Mar 2021

FDA authorizes first machine learning-based COVID-19 non-diagnostic screening device

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first machine learning-based Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) non-diagnostic screening device that identifies certain biomarkers that are indicative of some types of conditions, such as hypercoagulation (a condition causing blood to clot more easily than normal).

20 Mar 2021

Online learning platform about COVID-19 pandemic aids frontline workers, educates the public

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced medical students out of classrooms and clinical rotations this time last year, the state of Georgia's only public medical school had to quickly rethink its traditional curriculum.

19 Mar 2021

Older and non-White people less likely to be captured by mobility data used in response to COVID-19

Information on individuals' mobility--where they go as measured by their smartphones--has been used widely in devising and evaluating ways to respond to COVID-19, including how to target public health resources.

17 Mar 2021

Machine Learning News and Research

Machine learning can monitor and predict the progression of multiple sclerosis

New smartphone application screens for carpal tunnel syndrome

Combined clinical and genomic data better predicts COVID-19 severity

Combination of X-rays and AI can serve as rapid diagnostic tool for COVID-19

New "machine learning" method helps analyze large amounts of biological data

New machine learning algorithm ranks drugs based on efficacy in reducing cancer cell growth

World-first treatment for oral cancer

Anabolic-androgenic steroids can have deleterious effects on the brain

Researchers are testing wearable devices to detect early Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases

Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging technique can facilitate the diagnosis of fatty liver diseases

Artificial neural network for automatically decoding and interpreting cortical signals

New AI platform can help assess vascular diseases

Study may help develop effective biosensors for non-invasive diagnosis of prostate cancer

Ai helps identify critical interactions for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding to ACE2

Computational analysis helps identify hematological malignancies that elude the human eye

AI-based system for real-time prediction of complications in intensive care units

RADLogics AI-Powered COVID-19 solution reduces turnaround time

FDA authorizes first machine learning-based COVID-19 non-diagnostic screening device

Online learning platform about COVID-19 pandemic aids frontline workers, educates the public

Older and non-White people less likely to be captured by mobility data used in response to COVID-19

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