Researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses machine learning to accurately determine body composition – which is linked to a higher risk of heart disease, stroke and related conditions – from photographs. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed the smartphone app called 3D BodyShape, which is currently a research prototype and will
A t-shirt that monitors a patient’s vitals after urological surgery for cancer could help people return from hospital sooner to recover at home. The device, worn for around two weeks under clothes for three-hour windows each day, enabled patients to feel safer and more reassured than a control group in a pilot study of 70
Scientists at Neurorestore (EPFL/CHUV/UNIL) have developed an approach that combines rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord stimulation to restore movement in people with spinal cord injuries. The technology enhances rehabilitation and enables activities like cycling and walking outdoors. Spinal cord injuries are life-altering, often leaving individuals with severe mobility impairments. While rehabilitation robotics—devices that guide movement
Newly developed artificial intelligence can account for how the brain changes as we learn, enabling a person with paralysis to move objects Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and
Pioneering prosthetic hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds Key Takeaways Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever
A team of physicists at Tampere University has developed a groundbreaking method for detecting congestive heart failure with greater ease and precision than previously thought possible. This multidisciplinary study, involving both cardiologists and computational physicists, builds on the team’s earlier breakthroughs, for example, in predicting the risk of sudden cardiac death. Researchers at Tampere University
A new AI model can predict patients’ risk of developing and worsening disease, and even their risk of early death, using an electrocardiogram (ECG). Researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust believe their work, published today in Lancet Digital Health, could be used in the NHS within five years. It would
From electrical stimulation to robotics Most people may not pay much attention to the dizzying array of movements their bodies perform every day. Just in the morning, from sipping a cup of coffee to taking a shower and walking out the front door, the arms and legs execute a range of intricate motions in all
A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally and navigated obstacles. State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic sensors and
New research shows AI can help solve problems for patients, doctors and the health system. You may not think artificial intelligence could have a role in surgery, but new research shows AI can help solve problems for patients, doctors and the health system. A group of researchers led by surgery researcher Dr Chris Varghese at
