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Into the deep: proper utilisation of patient data

|Dr Dominic King is a clinical lead at DeepMind. He is also a lecturer in surgery at Imperial College London, where he previously worked as an academic general surgeon and led research programmes in digital health and patient safety. King studied medicine at the University of Manchester.|DeepMind is a London-based company specialising in medical AI.|Using AI in the medical field could help save medical staff time and money, as well as save lives.

In the hot seat: setting up the perfect OR

|Dr Philip Chen is the assistant professor and programme director of rhinology and otolaryngology, in the department of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He studied at the University of Virginia and is board-certified.|Surgeons need to be comfortable during operations.

On the buzzer: centralised patient monitoring

Alarm fatigue is a major problem in hospitals. It refers to what happens when nurses become desensitised to the alarms in the hospital room, and can lead to

Sound check: revolutionary ultrasound

|Dr Jonathan Rothberg is an American scientist and entrepreneur. His work with chip-based DNA sequencing won him the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Rothberg is also a professor of research of genetics at Yale University.|Dr John Martin is a vascular surgeon and the chief medical officer at Butterfly. He is also president of the Heart Health Foundation. Martin studied medicine at the UT Southwestern Medical School, Texas, and has held positions at the Anne Arundel Medical Center and Cardiology Associates, LLC.|The iQ system enables doctors to share images immediately with the patient, keeping them informed at all stages of their appointment.|Ultrasound devices could be available to patients for home use in the future.

The power of microbubbles

|Dr Scott Tsai: Dr Scott Tsai is an associate professor in mechanical engineering at Ryerson University and an affiliate scientist at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. His undergraduate and graduate training are from the University of Toronto and Harvard University, respectively.|Microbubbles improve the visual distinction between blood and surrounding tissue during ultrasound imaging.|During an ultrasound, microbubbles can be excited at their resonant frequency, allowing clear imaging of the blood vessels.

AI in medicine: the end of human error?

|Dr Stephen Wong: At Houston Methodist, Dr Stephen Wong is the chief research information officer and chief of medical physics. He is also founding chairman of the department of systems medicine and bioengineering department at Houston Methodist Research Institute. His research includes medical imaging, digital health and drug discovery.|AI software can interpret mammogram results more quickly and accurately than a human.|Wong says that mammogram BI-RADs scoring is outdated and imprecise.

Made to measure: MRI technique to assess lung cancer

Professor Nandita deSouza is investigating the use of MRI in diagnosing cancer.|Professor Nandita deSouza is translational imaging professor at the Institute of Cancer Research and an honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital. She is investigating the use of MRI in diagnosing cancer and predicting patients’ responses to treatment.|Researchers are looking for better ways to scan complex parts of the body, such as the lungs.|An apparent diffusion coefficient map derived from diffusion-weighted MRI of the lungs done in free breathing. An irregular tumour is visible (arrow) against the lack of signal (black) from air in the lungs.|Routine scans for lung cancer do not currently allow patients to breathe freely, so a new technique was needed.

Embracing neonatal MRI

|Uri Rapoport: Aspect Imaging’s founder, president and CEO, Uri Rapoport is an expert in permanent magnet technology. He founded and led several Israeli and US companies in the fields of NMR and MRI, and holds multiple worldwide and US patents in the fields of NMR, MRI, and GPS.|The Embrace system is the first FDA-cleared MRI device specifically for neonatal brain and head imaging.|Aspect Imaging has developed its magnet technology over the years, creating roughly 200 versions in order to continuously improve.

Close to the chest: CheXNet

|The ‘normal’ chest X-ray on the left can be compared with CheXNet’s interpretation on the right, which shows where pneumonia is likely to be located; the red area is the region of most concern.|Some radiologists have voiced criticisms of CheXNet’s new AI technique.

VivoSight: beam us up

|Jon Holmes co-founded Michelson Diagnostics in 2006. A physicist by training, he has more than 30 years’ experience in optical imaging, the first 14 of which were in industrial manufacturing, where he developed his interests in applications of laser scanning. Holmes was elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2017.|New technology can detect blood vessels grown by a malignant melanoma.|VivoSight could save patients from the discomfort and distress of biopsies.|The laser tool provides live subsurface images of skin to a depth of 1mm.

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