AI in Healthcare August 17, 2021
While big breakthroughs in healthcare AI seem to have slowed in recent weeks, those involving other hot technologies have kept the content coming for publishers of peer-reviewed medical journals.
Here are three such innovations that caught our eye in recent weeks.
1. A wearable strain sensor that functions like “electronic skin” to monitor joint motion and breathing cycles. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and colleagues in China developed this device to stretch with movement and heal itself with liquid metal when it gets slightly damaged. If the “injury” is worse, the unit can be reconfigured to move from monitoring just about any joint to the abdomen for respiratory duties—or vice versa. It’s made with off-the-shelf chip components and,...