VisionBlender generates computer vision datasets for robotic surgery
Researchers at the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, have introduced a novel tool for generating accurate endoscopic datasets.
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Prosthetics: sensors implanted for wireless control of muscle signal
Researchers have successfully implanted sensors in three male patients following nerve transfers, to transmit biosignals for wireless control of robotic arms.
Graphene sheets improve lab-on-chip diagnostic tests
Researchers have improved an electronic sensor for fast detection of infectious diseases like COVID-19.
Virtual physiotherapist enables stroke survivors to train
A rehabilitation device can increase the amount of arm exercises stroke patients do without professional supervision.
Bleak cyborg future from brain-computer interfaces
Researchers warn of the potential social, ethical, and legal consequences of technologies interacting heavily with human brains.
Wearables and the promising future of personalised diagnostics
Researchers have proposed that wearable devices could be used to develop a network of health data about a patient, allowing for early diagnosis of COVID-19, even when the patient is asymptomatic.
Virtual reality could help to reduce pain
Researchers have shown that VR can reduce types of pain typically seen in patients with nerve injuries.
AI test predicts eye disease years before symptoms
A new eye test may predict wet age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of severe sight loss, three years before symptoms develop.
Lab-on-chip infection test for faster diagnostics
A tiny new silicon-based lab-on-chip test could pave the way for cheap handheld infectious disease testing.
COVID-19 testing: Robotic platform helps to scale up capacity
Researchers havee repurposed robotic technology normally used for synthetic biology research to help with testing for COVID-19.
Next-generation cast inspired by animal scales
A graduate has designed wearable technology inspired by protective structures found in the animal world to protect athletes from injury.
Multimodal mixed reality visualisation for surgical guidance
Researchers have developed a MR visualisation platform which projects multiple imaging modalities to assist intraoperative surgical guidance.
Robotic testing platform increases coronavirus testing capacity
A robotic testing platform developed in just nine days by dementia researchers could substantially increase the UK’s capacity to test people for coronavirus.
Google-powered AI spots breast cancer
A computer algorithm has been shown to be as effective as human radiologists in spotting breast cancer from x-ray images.
One step closer to soft medical sensors
Bioengineers have found a way to create stretchy and squeezy soft sensing devices by bonding rubber to electrical components.
ELSAH – A ‘Smart Patch’ to determine biomarkers
At the start of 2019 the EU project ELSAH began with the objective of designing a wearable within four years that enables the continuous determination of biomarker concentrations.
Immersion in VR scenes of the Arctic helps to ease pain
Watching immersive 3D videos of icy Arctic scenes helps to relieve burning pain and could hold hope for treating chronic pain.
Microneedle biosensors detect patient antibiotic levels
Scientists have successfully used microneedle biosensors to accurately detect changes in antibiotic levels in the body, for the first time.
In emergencies: AI can improve X-ray identification of pacemakers
Researchers have created new AI software that can identify cardiac rhythm devices in x-rays more accurately and quickly than current methods.
Promising applications of mixed realities in medicine
At ECR 2019, researchers talked about the practical applications of mixed realities in medical education and training as well as preprocedural planning and visualization during a surgery.
AI predicts survival of ovarian cancer patients
Researchers have created new machine learning software that can forecast the survival rates and response to treatments of patients with ovarian cancer.
A robot helper to understand human movement
Researchers have created a new robot controller using game theory, allowing the robot to learn when to assist a human.
Technology pinpoints biopsies to detect prostate cancer
Medical software that overlays tumour information from MRI scans onto ultrasound images can help guide surgeons conducting biopsies and improve prostate cancer detection.
New prosthetic limbs are self-learning bionic hands
Scientists have used machine learning to improve the performance of prosthetic hands. The researchers said the findings, could spark a "new generation of prosthetic limbs.
“Drinkable” electronic sensors track cancer-cell development
A drinking solution containing millions of tiny electronic sensors disguised as bacteria could helppatients in tracking their illness.
AI improves stroke and dementia diagnosis in brain scans
Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in CT brain scans, more accurately than current methods.
Augmented reality helps surgeons to ‘see through’ tissue
A series of procedures have shown how surgeons can use computer-generated augmented reality imaging while operating on patients undergoing reconstructive lower limb surgery.