Charles Taylor: 3-D digital hearts
HeartFlow has developed technology to help clinicians diagnose coronary heart disease. In order to generate a personalized, digital 3D model of the patient’s coronary arteries, the HeartFlow Analysis uses deep learning first, using data from a typical cardiac CTA scan. HeartFlow then applies computational fluid dynamics and sophisticated algorithms to the model to quantify the effects of blockages on blood flow. This study will help clinicians diagnose CHD and improve the app.
Thomas Reardon: A wristband that can read your mind
The technology could open up new forms of rehabilitation and access for patients recovering from:
- a stroke
- or amputation,
- as well as those with Parkinson’s disease
- multiple sclerosis
- and other neuro degenerative conditions!
A guy wearing what looks like a chunky black wristwatch stares in front of him at a tiny robotic dinosaur jumping over barriers on a computer screen. The man’s hands are motionless, but with his brain, he controls the dinosaur. The unit on his wrist is the CTRL package, which senses the motor neurons’ electrical impulses that travel down the muscles of the arm and to the hand almost as soon as a person thinks of a specific movement.
Jonathan Rothberg: An ultrasound in your pocket
The Butterfly iQ is the first all-body ultrasound device ever to be handheld. It replaces costly and fragile piezo crystals used with a single silicon chip in conventional systems. To capture precise imaging depths and frequencies to view different parts of the entire body, the chip can emit all three types of ultrasonic waves required.
Butterfly uses an app for smartphones that provides real-time AI analysis and ultrasound imaging. Butterfly iQ allows ultrasound healthcare practitioners to help detect and treat discovered diseases. Users will have access to a HIPAA-compliant cloud network that links healthcare professionals from around the world in order to receive up-to – date diagnoses and shared insights into complex diseases.
https://www.butterflynetwork.com/press-releases/butterfly-ce-mark
So, in my opinion, new medicine will give us a lot of opportunities to live healthy and active life using innovational technologies.
Here you can read more about other technologies in medicine:
https://time.com/5710295/top-health-innovations/
You touched on a very important topic, but how do you think are tests made with the phone accurate enough?
At the moment, the tests may be inaccurate because these technologies are quite new. But in the next 10 years they will be improving, at least I hope so.