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  • Withings Debuts Connected Home Urine Lab

    Diagnostics World News | Since Withings founder Eric Carreel bought his company back from Nokia in 2018, the consumer electronics company has broadened its focus from nice-to-have smart health devices that support daily well-being to connected, medical-grade products whose health impacts are being scientifically validated. The latest addition to the arsenal is U-Scan, which can perform daily ​​urinalysis with a smart device that sits inside any toilet bowl.

    Jan 4, 2023
  • Global Federated Machine Learning Model Detects Glioblastoma Borders

    Diagnostics World News | In a paper published late last year in Nature Communications, researchers from Penn Medicine and Intel Labs report on what they call the largest to-date global federated learning effort to develop an accurate and generalizable machine learning model for detecting glioblastoma borders. The work has important implications both clinically and as a model for future large, federated learning projects.

    Jan 3, 2023
  • Top Stories of 2022: Post-COVID Diagnostics Market, Pan-Cancer Testing, Afib, Pregnancy

    Diagnostics World News | Diagnostics has changed in the past three years with the pandemic necessitating regulatory changes and demanding technical innovation. Some of this change has been directly COVID-related, but much was simply fueled by increased funding and attention to diagnostic problems. This year we watched the results of those changes filter through the industry and spur new thinking.

    Dec 29, 2022
  • FDA-Approved Advanced Lung Cancer CDx, Thermo Fisher’s Rapid Infectious Microbe Detection Panel, More

    Diagnostics World News | An artificial intelligence electrocardiogram algorithm designed to enable the early suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis; a first-of-its-kind wearable and wireless facial electromyography solution to assess subtle facial expressions and decipher emotional reactions; fluorescent dye singles out cancer cells under near-infrared light; and more.

    Dec 27, 2022
  • Follow the Money: Single Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Testing, Highly Accurate COVID-19 Antibody Testing, More

    Diagnostics World News | Funding for digitizing clinical diagnostics, multi-stage and multi-marker disease testing, tracking viral infections or molecular signatures that indicate the presence of a disease, and more.

    Dec 22, 2022
  • With Machine Learning, Acoustical Phenomenon Could Be Diagnostic

    Diagnostics World News | The application of sound in diagnostic medicine was among a miscellany of topics on the agenda at the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. These included the use of machine learning to detect diarrhea and pneumonia by listening to, respectively, excretion events and coughs.

    Dec 20, 2022