Medical Engineering
The development of medical equipment, products and technical procedures is characterized by high research and development costs in a variety of fields related to the study of human medicine.
innovations-report provides informative and stimulating reports and articles on topics ranging from imaging processes, cell and tissue techniques, optical techniques, implants, orthopedic aids, clinical and medical office equipment, dialysis systems and x-ray/radiation monitoring devices to endoscopy, ultrasound, surgical techniques, and dental materials.
Evaluating Brain Tumours with Artificial Intelligence
Best Paper Award: Outstanding Publication by TU Researchers Recognised. One application area of artificial intelligence (AI) is in medicine, especially in medical diagnostics. For instance, scans can be analysed automatically…
Understanding and fighting tumors better with new algorithms
The University Hospital Zurich, the University of Zurich and the diagnostics company Roche are expanding their collaboration in cancer research. In the fully digitalized Morphomolecular Pathology Laboratory, they are developing…
Unstable ‘fluttering’ predicts aortic aneurysm
With 98% accuracy, new metric predicted aneurysm development on average three years prior to occurrence. Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a…
New Microscope: ComplexEye and AI
…enable Faster Migration Analysis of Immune Cells. Immune cells fight infectious intruders, for example, or search for incipient cancers. Therefor, they are constantly migrating through the tissues of our body….
Artificial hands: Artificial intelligence makes gripping more intuitive
Advanced control of prosthetic hands. Artificial hands can be operated via app or with sensors placed in the muscles of the forearm. New research at the Technical University of Munich…
A patch of protection against Zika virus
A simple-to-apply, needle-free vaccine patch is being developed to protect people from the potentially deadly mosquito-borne Zika virus. A prototype using The University of Queensland-developed and Vaxxas-commercialised high-density microarray patch…