Finding an Effective Spanish-Language Assessment Tool for Alzheimer’s Disease
This September is World Alzheimer’s Month. With an estimated 54 million people living with dementia worldwide, underrepresentation of diverse… Read more »
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Can an algorithm be trained to recognize different childhood coughs?
Respiratory illnesses affect hundreds of millions of children worldwide. In this blog, Dr Paul Porter, author of a new study in Respiratory Research,… Read more »
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Swipe left or swipe right? With a few images and a short bio to appeal to prospective partners, dating apps have undoubtedly put a… Read more »
Geospatial artificial intelligence: the technology standing on the shoulders of giants
The molding together of artificial intelligence (AI) and the geographic/GIS (geographic information systems) dimension creates… Read more »
Spotlight on e-health and m-health
The impact of digital technology on healthcare is explored in a Special Issue of BioMedical Engineering Online, introduced by… Read more »
Quo vadis blockchain in health and healthcare?
You may be familiar with blockchain as the technology powering bitcoin cryptocurrency. But blockchain's potential goes far beyond… Read more »
Controlling epidemics using mobile phone data
Mobile data can be (and has been) used to study a vast number of subjects related to human behavior. One of its potential… Read more »
A good night in spaceflight
After a long day of work, nothing is better than lying in bed. But what if you are living in a spacecraft without gravity? There… Read more »
Facing the data avalanche in Science and Healthcare
Vast amounts of data are collected every day from all aspects of people's lives. The recent field of network science aims to… Read more »
Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
Research published today in EPJ Data Science finds that early-warning signs of depression can be detected in Instagram posts… Read more »