A digital application by a PhD student at Stellenbosch University (SU) that provides information about water quality in water supply systems has taken third place at an international gathering in New York seeking solutions to global challenges.
BANGKOK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ PASS (Point-Assisted Spinal Sonography), an ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture device from Chula doctors and engineers, helps increase the precision and confidence in spinal tap procedures while reducing risks and pain for patients. Nobody wants to get jabbed repeatedly with a needle, especially when that needle is poking into the spinal cord. All of us pray that the doctor can do it precisely in one fell swoop. However, mistakes happen depending on the doctor's experience and expertise, as well as the physical conditions of the patient. "A mistake in performing lumbar puncture (LP) could affect the patient's entire life! We don't want to see patients suffering from pain and being harmed by our treatment,"Associate Professor Ketchada Uerpairojkit, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, discusses the motivation to design the ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture device or PASS - Point-Assi
BANGKOK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ A team from Chula's Faculty of Engineering have made use of AI Deep Tech to develop a program that scans documents and images into OCR documents. The program is more than 90% accurate when reading Thai scripts and Chula's UTC is now ready for a spin-off to the market through Eikonnex AI Co. Ltd. As many of us who work with information on paper documents such as questionnaires and research reports know too well that the most tedious and difficult part of each job has to do with transferring all the answers or data to digital files for storage by typing them page by page. This task is extremely time-consuming, straining your eyesight and risking body aches and pains that come with what we now call Office Syndrome. For this type of work,Associate Professor Dr.Thanarat Chalidabhongse of the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn Universitycan replace that laborious effort with the use of AI: Artificial Intelli
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