Article "Sports-concussion dilemma: Robot doctors could be the answer in rural America"
by UT Southwestern
April 7, 2017
by UT Southwestern
April 7, 2017
Artificial intelligence is now detecting cancer and robots are doing nursing tasks. But are there risks to handing over elements of our health to machines, no matter how sophisticated?
Faster medical treatment saves lives. Machine Learning is already saving lives, by scouring a multitude of patients’ data and comparing them to one patient’s health data to detect symptoms 12 to 24 hours sooner than a doctor could. "In many pressing medical problems, the answers to knowing whom to treat, when to treat, and what to treat with, might already be in your data" says Suchi Saria. Learn how TREWS (Targeted Real-time Early Warning Score) is leading the way to save lives.
Suchi Saria is a professor of computer science and health policy, and director of the Machine Learning and Health Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Her research is focused on designing data solutions for providing individualized care.
Only one in 10 people survives a cardiac arrest outside hospital. Doctors in Sweden are testing if drones could shave valuable minutes off emergency response times.
Following a successful demo at the Máxima Medical Center in the Netherlands, a team of young students at TU Eindhoven (TU/e) seem on course to develop the world’s first autonomous indoor drone – project name ‘Blue Jay Eindhoven’. The dream is to see their drone support healthcare professionals across their work. This is largely uncharted territory, both in drone technology and healthcare, and here the students and some of the drone experts championing their groundbreaking work discuss the technological challenges the project faces.
Life-threatening heart arrhythmias can be difficult to detect but a new deep learning algorithm can evaluate each second of a heart signal and diagnose 14 types of arrhythmia with performance similar to that of cardiologists.
How can drones revolutionize healthcare in rural Rwanda and potentially beyond? Partnering across disciplines, UPS has helped create the world’s first drone-based medical delivery system, transporting emergency medical supplies to remote villages in Rwanda. On track to hopefully save thousands of lives a year, this scalable system could conceivably help transform how we deliver medical resources in the future as populations outgrow aging infrastructure.
Gifu University's Mobile Personal Space (MPS) is a robotic shell that completely encloses an individual with social anxiety. Once you’re in there, you interact with people outsidethrough cameras and LCD screens.
Heart In Your Hands invites you to hold a beautifully designed robotic heart beating in time with your own, or of your loved ones, to arouse a deeper appreciation and to inspire empathy toward this hidden engine of our lives.
Engineer Richard Sewell, artist Natasha Rosling and designer Helen White worked closely with biomedical engineer Dr David Nordsletten to design an intimate experience to stimulate a more fundamental understanding of cardiac mechanics and the engineers that are advancing our understanding of our hearts and heart health.
The team developed a bespoke method of building soft robotics technology to give the public the experience of what it would be like to hold their own heart beating in their hands.
In collaboration with Dr David Nordsletten and Biomedical Engineers at King’s College London, Funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Heart Foundation.