Monash University

A senior patient in an in-person consultation with a doctor in a clinic
By  Adam Ang 12:57 am December 15, 2023
New AI app for facial palsy screening Computer scientists from Australia and Iraq have developed an AI-based diagnostic tool to detect facial palsy. They have come up with a detection system for facial palsy featuring a microcomputer, digital camera, and deep learning algorithm. Based on an entry in the journal BioMedInformatics, researchers from the Middle Technical University in Baghdad and the...
Screenshots of Walking Tall app
By  Adam Ang 02:22 am August 18, 2023
New Parkinson's app uses metronome beats to train gait  A new mobile app for people with Parkinson's Disease helps them walk better using metronome beats.  The gait re-training tool, developed as part of a larger clinical trial for PD research, delivers rhythmic metronomic beats that trigger movement.  Now developed separately as an app called Walking Tall, it now features training sessions on...
Surgeons analysing a brain scan.
By  Adam Ang 01:43 am July 27, 2023
Researchers from the faculties of Engineering and IT at Monash University have come up with an AI algorithm that can judge another AI algorithm's annotation or label in a medical scan, mimicking the process of seeking a second opinion. FINDINGS They created a dual-view AI system where one part labels medical images while the other judges the quality of the AI-generated labelled scans by...
A researcher showing a wearable skin patch for remote health monitoring
By  Adam Ang 01:09 am May 23, 2023
Engineering and IT researchers from Monash University have combined nanotechnology and AI to create wearable technology for remote health monitoring. They came up with an ultra-thin wearable patch that is worn on the neck to measure speech, neck movement and touch, as well as breathing and heart rates. It does this using a frequency/amplitude-based neural network called Deep Hybrid-Spectro, which...
A tired nurse sitting on the floor
By  Adam Ang 02:41 am April 28, 2023
Researchers from Monash University's Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health have developed a mobile app that helps personalise the sleep-wake cycle of hospital shift workers.  HOW IT WORKS The app called SleepSync entirely tailors a sleep-wake cycle to an individual user by taking into account their calendar for work and personal commitments and daily logging of actual sleep/wake times and...
 A pharmacist checking medicines on a rack
By  Adam Ang 05:07 am September 1, 2022
An international study led by Monash University has done what could be the world's first demonstration of an AI model that can predict the optimal anti-seizure medication for newly diagnosed epilepsy patients. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The research team has trained a deep-learning prediction model using clinical information from around 1,800 patients in five health care centres in Australia, Malaysia,...
A photo of a person's eye
By  Adam Ang 05:36 am October 13, 2021
Latest research integrates artificial intelligence into retinal imaging to detect and monitor eye diseases on a large scale. The Comprehensive AI Retinal Expert (CARE) system was developed by a team of researchers from four institutions in China: Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing Eaglevision Technology, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre and Capital Medical University, together with the Monash University...