Search Tag: biomedical imaging
2021 17 Apr
Smartphones are becoming an indelible part of everyday life and also finding their way into healthcare. A new study explores the challenges and opportunities of their applications in biomedical imaging (Hunt et al. 2021). You might also like: A combination of symptom and sensor data from wearable devices could enhance detection...Read more
2018 04 Sep
Purdue University researchers are developing a novel biomedical imaging system, known as photoacoustic tomography (PAT), that combines optical and ultrasound technology to improve diagnosis of life-threatening diseases. The system provides real-time compositional information of body tissue without the need for contrast agents and with better depth...Read more
2018 29 May
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently hosted a two-day workshop that gathered experts from the medical imaging and artificial intelligence communities. The objective was to develop standards for a new system that is envisioned to serve as a “diagnostic cockpit”, providing clinicians with data needed to diagnose...Read more
2016 12 Jun
Researchers in Spain are involved in a European network, headed by CERN, to develop an endoscopic scanner for early diagnosis of some cancers that have a high mortality rate, such as pancreatic cancer that has a mortality rate up to 90 percent nowadays. In spite of the latest advances in cancer detection and diagnosis, some types of cancers...Read more