1+ week, 6+ day ago  (153+ words) Lived experience leads to image analysis software that uses machine learning to identify cancer and leukaemia cells. Project: AI-driven cancer diagnosis: testing image analysis software. Niamh Price, Lucy Turner and Megan Joyce from Freman College For over a decade, health…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (183+ words) Artificial intelligence could support earlier detection of serious heart valve disease by analysing heart sounds recorded with digital stethoscopes, according to a study led by Cambridge University. Using heart sound data from 1,767 participants across five NHS Trusts, the system was…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (190+ words) Engineers behind a suite of pioneering neural interface technologies that have restored lost human function have been announced as the winners of the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. " Nine engineers behind pioneering advances in neural interface technologies ranging from cochlear…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (264+ words) Autonomous AI screens for cognitive impairment from clinical notes'The Engineer - Home Autonomous AI screens for cognitive impairment from clinical notes Researchers in the US have developed a fully autonomous AI system capable of screening for cognitive impairment using routine clinical…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (434+ words) Researchers at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and Glasgow University are developing a smart-textile bra designed to provide extra breast cancer monitoring for women with intellectual disabilities. A team of scientists and designers are developing an electronic textile which would fit…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (465+ words) Researchers have demonstrated the potential of AI to help identify women at higher risk of developing interval breast cancers, which are diagnosed in the period between routine screening mammograms. The study is detailed in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (464+ words) The world's first non-contact handheld device to support glaucoma diagnosis has won the Royal Academy of Engineering's 2025 Colin Campbell Mitchell Award. Occuity's PM1 device has been designed to measure corneal thickness - a key step in diagnosing glaucoma " without touching the eye....

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (161+ words) How the AI Model Works The AI system first detects whether an image contains a surgical incision and then evaluates whether that incision shows signs of infection. The model, Vision Transformer, achieved a 94 per cent accuracy in detecting incisions and…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (204+ words) Researchers have applied AI to eye scans to measure short-sightedness and gauge the risk of future retinal damage. The team from Edinburgh University analysed health data and retinal images from over 9,300 UK Biobank participants aged 4069 with no previous retinal problems....

8+ mon, 4+ week ago  (225+ words) A doctor working in Florida has remotely performed a prostatectomy on a patient with cancer 11,000 km away in Angola. Dr Vipul Patel, medical director of the Global Robotic Institute at Orlando's Advent Health, has completed the robotic surgery procedure almost…...