University of South Australia

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...
A nurse conducting a skin check using AI in a pop-up clinic
By  Adam Ang 12:22 am January 25, 2023
Health charity Skin Check Champions, the University of South Australia, and The Hospital Research Foundation have teamed up to launch a pop-up clinic that uses AI to diagnose skin cancer. Their pop-up clinic is led by nurses who take high-quality lesion images from patients, which are then triaged and conditionally diagnosed by AI algorithms to check if they are cancerous. The results are also...
Screenshot of the Fred Marketplace online portal
By  Adam Ang 01:14 am August 19, 2022
Fred launches third-party apps marketplace for pharmacies Australian pharmacy IT solutions provider Fred IT Group has launched an online marketplace of third-party applications for pharmacies. Called Fred Marketplace, the web-based hub has solutions that have been approved and tested for use with Fred's software, including apps and integrations for robots, eCommerce, business intelligence,...
A baby in bed
By  Adam Ang 05:19 am November 18, 2021
Engineers from the University of South Australia and Iraq-based Middle Technical University have developed an imaging system to diagnose jaundice in newborn babies. WHAT IT DOES The said tool can detect newborn jaundice within a second, automatically turning on a blue LED phototherapy to treat it and then sending a diagnosis to carers. Treatment is triggered once it detects that the level of a...
Alt text: A photo of a baby in bed
By  Adam Ang 04:38 am August 27, 2021
The University of South Australia has published a study where an AI-powered computer vision system that has the same accuracy as an ECG machine was used to remotely monitor premature babies' vital signs. The platform can also detect their faces while lying in hospital beds. WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, the university's researchers developed the "baby detector" software using a...