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A smartphone AI-based face-screening tool is being developed that may help paramedics to identify stroke within seconds, which is quicker and more accurate than is possible with current technologies. The team of biomedical engineers at RMIT University published a paper in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine describing the development of the AI capabilities behind …
Metal-oxide nanofiber based chemiresistive gas sensors offer greater usability for real-time breath tests on smart phones or tablet PCs in the near future. Your smartphone or tablet PC may soon enable a breath test for real-time assessment to detect diabetes and lung cancer. Il-Doo Kim, from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Republic …
Japanese researchers innovate a metabolic assessment designed to detect pancreatic cancer in its early stages. In that in a majority of cases of pancreatic cancer, the cancer has spread (metastasized) before it is diagnosed, early detection of the disease can potentially raise treatment and survival rates. Masaru Yoshida, from Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine …