ethics

'Biases’: AI’s limitations in coronavirus response

AI is playing a key role in the Covid-19 response, but it could also be exacerbating inequalities within our health systems – a critical concern that is dragging the technology’s limitations back into the spotlight.

The embedded ethics approach in AI development

Alena Buyx, Professor of Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies at TUM, explains the embedded ethics approach.

Digital transformation: From sick care to proactive health care

“The digital transformation will make healthcare even more human. It will enable us to provide preventive and personalized healthcare!”

Wearable biosensors may pave the way for personalized health

Penn State engineers say computational power is key to technology for smart bandages, health tattoos and artificial organs.

Facial recognition software IDs individuals from MRI scans

Though identifying data typically are removed from medical image files before they are shared for research, a study finds that this may not be enough to protect patient privacy.

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Mental health game changer

Using a simple computer game and AI techniques, researchers were able to identify behavioural patterns in subjects with depression and bipolar disorder.

AI identified decision-relevant patterns in EEG of coma patients

A research team has succeeded in identifying specific patterns in Electro-Encephalogram (EEG) analyses that the deep learning network uses for making prognosis decisions.

Bioprinting complex living tissue in seconds

Researchers have developed an extremely fast optical method for sculpting complex shapes in stem-cell-laden hydrogels and then vascularizing the resulting tissue.

Robot therapists need rules

Numerous initiatives using robots for improving mental health already exist. However, the use of embodied AI in psychiatry poses ethical questions.

Beware of medical ‘shadow’ records, ‘black box’ tools

A team of experts led by two University of Michigan researchers calls for attention to this shadow record.

Biometric fingerprinting tool for newborn identifcation

Researchers at the University of California San Diego develop a new non-touch technology that rapidly identifies infants and children.