SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a program that can be used for the diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment by automatically analyzing changes in brain volume. The research team at the Catholic University of Korea’s College of Medicine said Tuesday that it had developed [...]
DAEJEON, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology said Wednesday it had developed a new biosensor that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 infection within a very short time through a smartphone app. The research team succeeded in detecting the target gene in a fast and accurate manner without separate gene [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical artificial intelligence (AI) companies are making great strides with the scope of their services being diversified from the diagnosis of hard-to-diagnose diseases to the prediction of the risk of being afflicted with specific diseases. South Korean startup VUNO Inc. published the world’s first cardiac arrest-related paper in the [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology are being incorporated to raise the accuracy of disease diagnosis. A research team from Seoul National University Bundang Hospital developed a technology to diagnose sinusitis using a deep learning algorithm that raises diagnostic accuracy. Sinusitis is inflammation of the mucous membrane that [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A joint team of scientists from South Korea, Denmark and Thailand have developed a paper-based chip using conductive ink on printer paper that can be synced wirelessly with a smartphone for medical diagnosis. The team took advantage of the properties of electrowetting – using voltage to change the shape of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – After weeks of hopes and doubts, Gachon University’s Gil Hospital finally launched its AI-based super computer Watson for Oncology on Monday, and marked Korea’s first diagnosis of a cancer patient by a non-human expert. Watson, developed by IBM, sweeps through data of 290 medical journals, 200 medical text books, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Telemedicine refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology such as smartphones to provide healthcare from a distance. The idea is to free medical practitioners bound by time and place, and make medical services more accessible to patients. The government, namely the ruling Saenuri Party, has been spearheading [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of scientists from KIST (the Korea Institute of Science and Technology) has revealed prototype components of a new device that might ultimately be used to develop a contact lens-like diabetes sensor that would use teardrops to diagnose diabetes. The final product will measure the glucose concentration in [...]
DAEJEON, Jan.12 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean and American joint research team has developed a nano-capsule that makes diagnosing cancer within 24 hours possible by injecting the substance into the human body. The organic fluorescent dye contained in the capsule glows in different colors in the presence of different types of cancer cells. Professor Song [...]