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Consider the Promises and Challenges of Medical Image Analyses Using Machine Learning
Medical imaging saves millions of lives each year, helping doctors detect and diagnose a wide range of diseases, from cancer and appendicitis to stroke and heart disease. Because non-invasive early disease detection saves so many lives, scientific investment continues to increase. Artifical intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the medical imaging industry by sifting through mountains of scans quickly and offering providers and patients with life-changing insights into a variety of diseases, injuries, and conditions that may be hard to detect without the supplemental technology. Images are the largest source...
Source: MDDI - June 2, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Partha S. Anbil and Michael T. Ricci Tags: Imaging Source Type: news

ReWalk ’s Momentum Continues with New Nod from FDA
ReWalk Robotics has secured a clearance from FDA for the ReStore soft exo-suit system. The Marlborough, MA and Yokneam Ilit, Israel-based company said exo-suit is intended for use in the treatment of stroke survivors with mobility challenges. The ReStore system is comprised of a soft, garment-like design which connects to a lightweight waist pack and mechanical cables that help lift the patient's affected leg in synchronized timing with their natural walking pattern. The patient wears the device in a waist pack, which holds two motors, each with a cable that goes down to the foot and ankle. The cables then extend to a foot...
Source: MDDI - June 5, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Business Motors & Motion Control Source Type: news

Learning to Walk Again
When someone suffers a stroke, he or she often loses some mobility, and some 60 percent of survivors are left with lower-limb deficits. “They usually have one leg that's more impaired than the other leg, and then they undergo rehabilitation and physical therapy. And often they don't fully recover,” said Conor Walsh, professor of engineering and applied sciences at the John A. Paulson Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, in an interview with MD+DI. But a new device called ReSto...
Source: MDDI - April 17, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Susan Shepard Tags: Design Source Type: news

An Inflection Point for Stroke Care
In the past six months, stroke care in the United States has taken an epoch-changing turn. Techniques, technologies, and treatment pathways hinted at in earlier trials have become fully vetted and are a new gold standard giving doctors more time to treat stroke patients and help them regain pre-stroke capabilities. Two recent trials, especially, DAWN and DEFUSE 3, have precipitated industry-wide shifts in the way hospitals treat stroke, especially acute ischemic stroke. "I guess the best thing I can say is we have altered our practice here, essentially immediately, based on the results of those studies. I guess that shows ...
Source: MDDI - April 2, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Greg Goth Tags: Cardiovascular Source Type: news