NIH harnesses AI for COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring

NIH has launched an ambitious effort to use artificial intelligence, computation, and medical imaging to enable early disease detection, inform successful treatment strategies, and predict individual disease outcomes of COVID-19.
5-Aug-2020 12:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

NIH delivering new COVID-19 testing technologies to meet U.S. demand

The National Institutes of Health is investing $248.7 million in new technologies to address challenges associated with COVID-19 testing (which detects SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus).
31-Jul-2020 11:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Engineers 3D-print sensors onto moving organs

A new technique funded by NIBIB and developed by University of Minnesota researchers allows 3D printing of hydrogel-based sensors directly on the surface of organs, such as lungs—even as they expand and contract.
1-Jul-2020 3:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Faster processing makes cutting-edge fluorescence microscopy more accessible

Scientists at NIBIB have developed new image processing techniques for microscopes that can reduce post-processing time up to several thousand-fold.
29-Jun-2020 11:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Neural network can determine lung cancer severity

NIBIB-funded researchers at Stanford University have created an artificial neural network that analyzes lung CT scans to provide information about lung cancer severity that can guide treatment options.
25-Jun-2020 12:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New Imaging Method Tracks Brain’s Elusive Networks

Understanding the source and network of signals as the brain functions is a central goal of brain research. Now, Carnegie Mellon engineers have created a system for high-density EEG imaging of the origin and path of normal and abnormal brain...
10-Jun-2020 3:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

RADx Tech: Diagnosing Disease-Delivering Health

Learn how NIH’s new Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative, or RADx Tech, has mobilized engineers and innovators across the country to bring accurate, rapid, and easy-to-use COVID diagnostic tests to all Americans.
10-Jun-2020 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Nerve stimulation helps manage pain without opioids

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin (UW) are adapting a minimally invasive, safer approach to electrically treat pain directly at the source as part of the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative.
19-May-2020 8:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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