By Kim Bellard
I feel that I have been writing a lot about futures that I was quite worried, so I am pleased to have a couple of developments to talk about Rolp that technology is great and that it can be used more.
First it is a new facial call algorithm, as published last week in Lancet digital health By researchers from General Mass Brigham. What it does is use photographs to determine biological age, unlike chronological age. We all know that different people seem to age different rates, I want to say, how old is Paul Rudd? – But so far the link between how people look and their health was intuitive at best.
In addition, algorithm can help determine survival results for cancer cancer types.
The researchers trained the algorithm in almost 59,000 photos of public databases, then tested against 6,200 tasks of cancer patients before the start of radiotherapy. Cancer patients seemed to make about five years older than their chronological age. “We can use artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate the biological age of a person of facial images, and our study shows that information can be clinically significant,” said the co-senior and corresponding author Hugo Aerts, PhD, director of the Artificial Intelligence Program in Medicine (AIM) in Mass General Brigham.
Interestingly, the algorithm does not seem to care if someone is bald or has gray hair, and can be using more subtle clues, such as muscle tone. It is an uncle of what difference does makeup, lighting or plastic surgery. “So this is something we are actively investigating and investigating,” said Dr. Aerts The Washington Post. “Now we are testing in several data sets [to see] How we can make the algorithm robust against this. “
In addition, it was mainly trained on white faces, which researchers recognize as a deficiency. “I’d be Vary Worried About Whether Tool Works Equally Well for All Populans, For Example Women, Older Adults, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Those Various Disabilities, Pregnant Women and the Like,” Jennifer Ealer, The Coaler, The Co Miller, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, The Coaler, the coal, the coal, the University of Miller, said The New York Times.
Researchers believe that ease can be used to better estimate survival rates for cancer patients. It turns out that when doctors try to measure them simply watching, their assumption is essentially like throwing a currency. When combined with facial ideas, precision can increase to approximately 80%.
Dr. Aerts says: “This work demonstrates that a photo like a simple selfie contains important information that could help inform the clinical plans of decision -making and care for patients and doctors. How many years are they seen compared to the age of the age of Thornicensicenia of chronicle really?
I am especially excited about this because of years, I speculated on the use of selfies and the AI of facial recognition to determine if we had conditions that were aging prematurely, or if we were getting sick. It appears to the researchers of the general mass Brigham agree. “This opens the completely new discovery of the kingdom or biomarkers of the photographs, and its potential goes far beyond cancer or the prediction age,” said the co-senior author Ray Mak, MD, a member of the Faculty in the AIM program in Brigham Masual. “If we are increasingly Think of Different Chronic Deseodas As Desessos of Aging, It Becomes Equally More Important To Be Uble to Accurely Earthly or Witly Or Witingy or Witly or Witly Or Earthyty, Whiteyty Detectiony, and Ethical Framework, to Help Save Lives.
The researchers recognize that you have to achieve long before it is introduced for commercial purposes, and that strong supervision will be needed to guarantee, as Dr. Aerts said Wapo“These AI technologies are being used in the right way, actually only for the benefit of patients.” Like Daniel Belsky, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, he said The New York Times: “There is a long way between the place where we are today and using thesis tools in a clinical environment.”
The second development is even more out there. Let me break the Caltech News Holder: “3D impression. “Ok, you have my attention.In vivo. “Color very intrigued.Using sound. ” Mind.
That’s how it is. This team of researchers has “developed a method for 3D printing polymers in specific places in the depths of living animals.”
Apparently, the 3D impression has been made in vivo previously, but using infrared light. “But infrared penetration is very limited. It only arrives just under the skin,” says Wei Gao, a professor of medical engineering at Caltech and corresponding author. “Our new technique reaches deep tissue and can print a variety of materials for a wide range of applications, all while maintaining excellent biocompatibility.”
They call the technique the sound printing platform (dispenser) of deep tissue (dispenser).
“The DIP technology sacrifices a versatile platform to print a wide range of functional biomaterials, unlock applications in bioelectronics, drug administration, fabric engineering, wound sealing and beyond,” the equipment yielded. “By enabling precise control over material properties and spatial resolution, Disp is ideal for creating functional structures and patterns directly within living tissues.”
The authors concluded: “The capacity for display to print behavioral biomaterials, loaded with drugs, cells-laden and bioadhesives demonstrates its versatility for various biomedical applications.”
I will save you the details, which involve, among other things, ultrasound and liposomes sensitive to low temperature. The key conclusion is this: “We have already demonstrated in a small animal that we can print drugs loaded with drugs for tumor treatment,” Dr. Ir. Gao says. “Our next stage is to try to print in a larger and, hopefully, in the near future, we can evaluate this in humans … in the future, with the help of AI, we would like to be able to print print print impression impressions of high autonomous summary printing with a print printing impression
Dr. Gao also points out that they can not only add Bio -ink where you want, but they could also eliminate it if necessary. Minimally invasive surgery seems raw compared.
“It’s quite exciting,” said Yu Shrke Zhang, a biomedical engineer from Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine and the Women and Women’s Hospital, who did not participate in the investigation, he said IEEE Spectrum. “This work has really expanded the scope of ultrasound -based printing and has shown its translation capacity.”
The first author Elham Davoodi has great hopes. “It’s quite versatile … It is a new research address in the field of bioimpression.”
“Pretty exciting” is not justice.
These days upside down, we must find our comfort where we can, and these are the son of things that await me about the future.
Kim is a former emarketing executive in an important blues plan, editor of The Late & larmente Tintura.ioAnd now regular THCB collaborator
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