AI in action

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is versatile and transformative in healthcare, whether by enhancing traditional methods or enabling new, innovative approaches. In today's issue, we have even more for you: Insights into the innovative work of Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, the next big step towards customized rehabilitation, and prosthetic control. But see for yourselves:

• Diabetes: AI skin scanner detects disease progression
• AI recognizing heart failure through voice analysis
• Smart infection diagnostics: UTI detection with AI
• Hand prostheses: AI enables more intuitive use
• Improving rehabilitation with self-stabilizing exoskeletons

MED TECH & DEVICES

Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich are shedding light on diabetes care: They applied the optoacoustic imaging method Raster-Scan Optoacoustic Mesoscopy (RSOM) to the skin of diabetes patients. This method, combined with AI, reveals microscopic changes in the blood vessels. Read more about this in our interview with Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos .

DIGITAL HEALTH

From the voice to the heart: Noah Labs improves telemedicine by using AI-based voice analysis to detect heart weaknesses at an early stage. Even short daily recordings can ensure that deteriorations in heart failure are detected early. An exciting advance for telemedicine and patient care.

LAB & DIAGNOSTICS

We have some good news for those of you who work as laboratory physicians and are often looking for urinary tract infections: The Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH has developed an AI-based decision tree that can help to identify UTIs. We sat down with Giacomo Da Col for an interview to learn more about it.

"Our method goes beyond traditional parameters like bacterial levels and white blood cells and shows a significant improvement in efficiency.”

Giacomo Da Col , Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH

PHYSIO TECH

Prof. Cristina Piazza and their team at Technical University of Munich are helping wearers of robotic hand prostheses to get a better grip: The are developing a new kind of control that works with 128 sensors and AI. Read in our interview how this will can people controlling their prostheses.

?A new era in mobility rehabilitation: the Atalante X exoskeleton is changing lives, step by step. The exoskeleton from Wandercraft , sets new standards. With the ability to provide resistance and thus not only support walking, but also challenge it, it enables customized rehabilitation. Jean-Louis Constanza shares insights into how Atalante X promotes early mobility and provides more intensive, personalized treatment - a real game changer for patients and caregivers alike.

What do you think of the use of AI? Do you see opportunities or challenges? Let us know in the comments.