Ejection fraction refers to the measurement, expressed in percentage, of the volume of blood being pumped out of the left ventricle when our heart muscles contract. A healthy, fully-functioning heart will eject more than half of the blood, making an ejection fraction to be over 50%. Typically, an ej
Most experts and health officials believe an effective way of slowing the ongoing covid-19 pandemic is to find and isolate those who have been in touch with the infected. With that, different countries have different methods to enforce quarantine; perform contact tracing, and record where people hav
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is universal and ultimately it’s not that hard,” said Dr. Dennis Paul Wall, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Systems Medicine); Biomedical Data Science, and by courtesy, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University during his presentation at AIMed 19. Under
A general talent gap and shortage are challenging today’s medicine and healthcare. As the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center (AAMC) Workforce Studies found, we may be facing 45,000 few primary care physicians and 46,000 few surgeons and other medical specialists in the next 10 years. O
Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli are two engineers from Brescia, a city within Lombardy, the Northern Italian region hardest hit by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The duo owns a five-year-old engineering firm - Isinnova together. Recently, they came to know the supplier is facing difficulti
The analogy of artificial intelligence (AI) is seasonal; it’s known as the AI summer when it’s at its height and AI winter when it’s at its trough. The past decade was probably the hottest summer that AI had ever experienced as we witnessed a boom in related startups; relentless research and testing
According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), every year, there are more than two million serious adverse drug reactions (ADR) (i.e., injuries as a result of taking a particular dose of medication or prolong administration of a drug or a mixed of two or more drugs), taking away 100,000 liv
For the past few years, deep neural networks were brought into play on various tasks ranging from speech recognition, computer vision, to social network filtering and playing of strategic games. In medicine, deep learning mainly monitors vital signs and notifies doctors shall the patients are off th
For the past decade, bridging the gap between our thoughts and movements has been the challenge that Paul Cederna, Plastic Surgeon and Biomechanics Professor; Cynthia Chestek, Neural Engineer and their research team at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, are trying to overcome as they develop min