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As hospital emergency wait times continue to increase in Canada, Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE) believes machine intelligence and robotics can play a key role in easing the strain by streamlining the delivery of health care. In July, two identical semi-humanoid…

The global incidence of chronic wounds — holes in the skin that can persist for weeks, months or years — is rising rapidly: in the United States alone, more than 6.5 million patients live with non-healing wounds. Carlo Perez (CompE…

Video games and a robotic glove that help stroke survivors regain dexterity in their hands and arms. A robot named Casper that assists older adults with everything from fixing a tuna sandwich to communicating with loved ones. These are just…

Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE) is among many researchers at U of T Engineering who are demonstrating how advances in artificial intelligence can accelerate gains in health, education, communication and quality of life, as well as the importance of educating students…

If you could learn when you’re likely to die, would you find out? Or would you rather it come as a complete surprise? You might someday be faced with this question. A group of Ottawa-based researchers is developing a simple,…

Ontario hospitals can reduce overcrowding without massive injections of cash, says a leading hospital management expert. This comes at a time when some hospitals in the province are already overcapacity before flu season begins and the Progressive Conservative government is…

Deep learning “godfather” Geoffrey Hinton, who knows all too well the limitations of our health-care system, has joined forces with University of Toronto President Emeritus Dr. David Naylor to communicate the life-saving potential of artificial intelligence to physicians – an…

The average Canadian family is expected to pay $12,935 for public health care through taxes this year – and that’s nearly 70 per cent higher than when the data was first made available in 1997. This according to a new…

There’s now a calculator to help you tweak your habits in a bid to cut down your risk of having a heart attack or a stroke. Canadian researchers have created an algorithm to predict a person’s five-year cardiovascular disease risk…

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds real potential for improving both the speed and accuracy of medical diagnostics. But before clinicians can harness the power of AI to identify conditions in images such as X-rays, they have to ‘teach’ the algorithms what…