Johns Hopkins Grants Aim to Support AI Solutions for Older Patients healthitanalytics.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from healthitanalytics.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Grant recipients–hailing from academia, industry, and clinical practice—will receive funding to develop new devices and other aging-related innovations
New $19 9M grant will expand hub for translational science, biomedical research in Rhode Island uri.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from uri.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
URI biomedical engineering seniors, from left, Connor Brown, Morgan Harr, Anthony DellaGrotta and Zachary Dougherty
KINGSTON, R.I. – May 6, 2021 – Rehabilitating from an ankle injury can be a slow process, depending on the extent of the damage. However, if a physical therapist or a doctor had more detailed, immediate feedback during the process, it would help form an accurate assessment.
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A team of biomedical engineering students at the University of Rhode Island created a device for its senior capstone design project which addresses precisely that.
The project, called Wobble Board Force Quantification, uses sensors to quantify the amount of force someone applies to a board which can tilt in any direction as a person presses down on their foot. Data collected from each sensor is converted to a numerical output and is manipulated into a heat pressure map displayed on a screen.