We built an AI tool to help avoid environmental disasters
Artificial intelligence helps us more and more with decision-making in fields such as medicine, transportation, and information retrieval. In collaboration with Equinor, Norway’s biggest oil and gas company, we have now added another field to the list: Interpreting integrity logs from oil and gas wells. Together, we built an AI-based assistant for Equinor’s log interpreters that they are now using in their daily work.
Can AI on hand-held ultrasound help diagnose heart failure?
Artificial intelligence software and telemedical transfer of images have shown promising results in aiding users to evaluate heart function, but in our study the artificial intelligence software on hand-held ultrasound devices alone is not reliable enough to evaluate heart function for general practitioners.
Automating heart monitoring
Heart disease is a major public health issue, and every year, more than 100,000 heart valve operations are performed in the United States alone. With these kinds of numbers, it is more and more urgent to simplify diagnosis and monitoring of heart patients. I/we believe automating the interpretation of ultrasound results is the way forward.
Taking heart imaging out of the hospital with AI
You have certainly heard about Artificial Intelligence (AI), but have you ever wondered what it is used for? If not, an excellent example of Artificial Intelligence is self-driving cars. The car computer acts as a brain, and cameras as eyes. But this is just a…
Open source processing of ultrasound images with the USTB
The UltraSound ToolBox (USTB), is a collaboration between several international institutions lead by former and current CIUS researchers Alfonso Rodriguez-Molares, (University of Vigo, Spain), Ole Marius Hoel Rindal (UiO and SINTEF) and Stefano Fiorentini (NTNU). It is an open source toolbox for processing of ultrasonic signals, where researchers can share and compare processing methods for ultrasound imaging.
Let the computer check the oil well!
It can be difficult to interpret ultrasound data used to check whether oil wells have a leak or not. We have found out how computers can help with the interpretations. Read the full blog post at Forskning.no: La datamaskina sjekke oljebrønnen!
(Not) science fiction at the GP’s
Those who grew up with Star Trek, watched the ship doctor using something akin to a mobile phone, which after one swipe could tell you what was wrong with the patient. This is no longer pure science fiction – at least not for diagnosing heart…
Hit the nerve with ultrasound and artificial intelligence
Imagine hitting a hole-in-one in golf every single time you try, with limited vision and only one hand. This is how it is to administer regional anaesthetics using ultrasound. Read more in the original blog post at Forskning.no: Treff nerven med ultralyd og kunstig intelligens
Using artificial intelligence to measure the heart
Artificial intelligence can now help clinicians by automatically measuring the heart in ultrasound images. This can save time and may in the future enable inexperienced users to perform accurate measurements of the heart.
Ultrasound automation simplifies detection of heart failure
Using an application developed at NTNU, helps physicians detect more patients with reduced heart function when assessing heart pump function in patients with suspected heart failure using ultrasound. Heart failure is a common disease among the elderly. Increased use of ultrasound of the heart or…