AI in Medicine

Train machines to see the way we see

Human’s vision is robust in such a way that when we see a stranger; look away for a few seconds, and then look back again at the same stranger, we will still be able to recognize that’s the person we saw moments ago, even though he/she might have moved off from his/her original position. However, su

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The lack of regulation is giving emotion AI research a bad name

Last week, artificial intelligence (AI) had achieved yet another breakthrough. A neural network built by Synthetic Biologist Jim Collins and his research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had uncovered a completely novel antibiotic known as halicin from scratch. Although this

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Patients as the driving force behind robotic surgery

Researchers from Maastricht University in the Netherlands conducted the first human trial and found it to be safe for a new, high-precision surgical robot to perform “supermicrosurgery” or operations on vessels which range from 0.3 to 0.8 millimeters wide. At the moment, only a fraction of supremely

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When mobile health applications backfire

Last week, the Chinese government officially launched a mobile application which allows locals to check if they have been in close contact to someone with COVID-2019 (previously known as 2019-nCOV), the novel coronavirus originated from Wuhan, China which infected nearly 47,000 people and killed mor

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Motion capture technology as a new rehab tool

Motion capture technology or Mocap started off 105 years ago as rotoscoping, when animator Max Fleischer (i.e., creator of Popeye and Betty Boop) traced over motion picture footages frame-by-frame on a glass-topped table to generate realistic and continuous movements. Disney was the first company to

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