Medical imaging breakthroughs aim to bring the invisible to light

Medical Xpress August 29, 2024
Valérie Geneux, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Medical imaging technology—such as MRI, ultrasound and X-ray—is gaining in power and precision, especially in the wake of recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Several EPFL research groups are contributing to this progress and actively shaping the future in this area.

Thanks to advances in medical imaging, doctors can localize a bone fracture, detect a tumor and observe a baby inside the uterus, all in a completely noninvasive manner. There’s no telling just how far we’ll be able to see inside the human body one day. The technology is developing at a rapid pace, generating images with ever-higher resolution that can be used to spot ever-smaller anomalies.

In the area of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Prof. Dimitri Van De Ville, the...

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