ASIA news
A new AI-based tool that gamifies the screening of mild cognitive impairment has been incorporated into a comprehensive health screening service in Singapore.
ReCOGnAIze is a neuroscientific game application developed at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) of Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Powered by a proprietary algorithm, ReCOGnAIze comprises four...
MediBuddy developing IoT devices with Japan's ELECOM
Virtual care company MediBuddy has started collaborating with Japanese electronics maker ELECOM to develop health IoT devices.
In a media release, MediBuddy said it will develop products for daily health management and leverage the collected health and medical data to generate personalised health insights and preventive care programmes.
"In...
Hong Kong-based startup PanopticAI has obtained regulatory approval in the United States for its contactless pulse rate measuring application.
It received the US Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) clearance for the PanopticAI Vital Signs app on iOS devices.
Based on PanopticAI's proprietary remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) algorithms, the app transforms the cameras of iOS devices into...
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has announced that its engineers have created what could be the world's smallest multifunctional surgical robot.
Made of hollow skeleton, optical fibre array, functionalized skin, and coated with a gel-like outer layer, the 0.95-millimetre robot is 60% smaller than existing endoscopic robots.
It integrates what researchers from the HKUST School...
Cornerstone Robotics bags $70M Series C funding
Surgical robotics maker Cornerstone Robotics from Hong Kong has raised over $70 million in a Series C funding round led by EQT. It also received additional investment from the Hong Kong government's Innovation and Technology Venture Fund.
The company, established in 2019, will use its fresh funds to expand into key global markets in Europe and...
Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Tongren Hospital have developed a foundational AI model for automated eye disease diagnosis.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The generative AI model, VisionFM, was pre-trained on a large ophthalmic data cohort containing 3.4 million images from over 500,000 individuals worldwide. The pre-training dataset covers eight eye imaging modalities,...
Back-to-back news over the past few years since the recent pandemic reported on the aggressive global expansion of South Korean companies in the medical imaging AI space.
From securing regulatory approvals to closing national and regional-scale distribution and partnerships, these innovators (such as Lunit, VUNO, and Coreline Soft) seemed to have convinced health systems worldwide of the...
South Korean wearable robot heads to US
WIRobotics, a robotics manufacturer from South Korea, is set to launch its wearable gait assistance robot in the United States.
Called WIM (We Innovate Mobility), the wearable exoskeleton, launched last year, features different modes: assist, resist, hike, and slow walk. It comes with a companion mobile application that provides analysis of gait, including...
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a new analytical tool offering a new approach to analysing brain activity.
The Brain-JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) model identifies brain regions and how they function individually and dynamically with other regions. It also breaks down complex patterns of brain activity into smaller pieces so they can be...
2024 saw the rise of many generative AI applications in various industries, including healthcare, driving work and operational efficiencies like never before.
It is also one of the technology solutions that came out of an accelerator programme by the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Interestingly, the clinical AI copilot might have been...
