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Tencent partners with Medopad to improve Parkinson's disease treatment with AI | healthcare technology | Scoop.it

From venturebeat.com - October 9, 2018 7:22 AM

Roughly 600,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Parkinson’s every year, contributing to the more than 10 million people worldwide already living with the neurodegenerative disease. Early detection can result in significantly better treatment outcomes, but it’s notoriously difficult to test for Parkinson’s.

Tencent and health care firm Medopad have committed to trialing systems that tap artificial intelligence (AI) to improve diagnostic accuracy. They announced a collaboration with the Parkinson’s Center of Excellence at King’s College Hospital in London to develop software that can detect signs of Parkinson’s within minutes. (Currently, motor function assessments take about half an hour.)

This technology can help promote early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, screening, and daily evaluations of key functions.

Medopad’s tech, which uses a smartphone camera to monitor patients’ fine motor movements, is one of several apps and wearables the seven-year-old U.K. startup is actively developing.

It instructs patients to open and close a fist while it measures the amplitude and frequency of their finger movements, which the app converts into a graph for clinicians. The goal is to eventually, with the help of AI, teach the system to calculate a symptom severity score automatically.

Tencent and Medopad are far from the only firms applying AI to health care. Just last week, Google subsidiary DeepMind announced that it would use mammograms from Jikei University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan to refine its AI breast cancer detection algorithms. And last month Nvidia unveiled an AI system that generates synthetic scans of brain cancer

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As medical imaging moves from 2-D to 3-D, FDA rushes to keep up | healthcare technology | Scoop.it

From www.washingtonpost.com - October 7, 2014 12:17 AM

At the Food and Drug Administration, a small team of scientists is investigating how 3-D imaging — the technology used to create more realistic animations in video games and movies — could transform medical screening devices.

The scientists are focused on early breast cancer detection; in a process known as tomosynthesis, new screening machines take low-dose X-rays from various angles, overlaying them to produce a 3-D rendering of a patient’s breast. Traditional mammograms create a 2-D image, and cannot show cancers hidden by overlapping tissue, according to the FDA, which last week released a consumer update on the new technology to coincide with the start of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Though 3-D screening machines are years from becoming commonplace in hospitals, FDA researchers say they are trying to keep up with an industry-wide transition from two- to three-dimensional imaging.

“Other industries are developing displays and fast computers that can be incorporated or utilized in [medical] images,” said Mary Pastel, deputy director for radiological health in the FDA’s office of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health. “The challenge for the FDA and industry is, at what point are those kinds of devices effective enough for the unique challenge of displaying medical images? Certainly Pixar images in movies can be moving toward quite realistic rendering, but there are substantial challenges displaying medical images with a very high pixel [rate].”

more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-it/as-medical-imaging-moves-from-2-d-to-3-d-fda-rushes-to-keep-up/2014/10/03/91e2d9e8-48d6-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html

Tencent partners with Medopad to improve Parkinson's disease treatment with AI

As medical imaging moves from 2-D to 3-D, FDA rushes to keep up