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A medical artificial intelligence (AI) startup was named one of 2017’s 20 most innovative technology companies by the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) earlier this month.

Elucid Labs, a startup founded by three University of Waterloo researchers, uses AI technology in a small imaging device for the early detection of skin cancer. The technology helps dermatologists make better, faster decisions and reduces the number of unnecessary biopsies.

New technology being developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Sunnybrook Research Institute is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect melanoma skin cancer earlier.

The technology employs machine-learning software to analyze images of skin lesions and provide doctors with objective data on telltale biomarkers of melanoma, which is deadly if detected too late, but highly treatable if caught early.

A recent advancement in microscope imaging technology at the University of Waterloo could soon make diagnosing disease more accessible and affordable.

The advancement, developed by Waterloo researchers Farnoud Kazemzadeh and Alexander Wong, has led to a new form of spectral light-fusion microscope for capturing lightfield images in full-colour. Full-colour images are required in pathology as it enables the microscope user to analyze the behaviour and interactions of different organisms at a scale that much larger than traditional microscopes.

Professor Hamid Tizhoosh has been working on both medical images and artificial neural networks for two decades. Only recently he and his students at the KIMIA Lab were able to exploit the advances in machine learning to tag medical images with ‘deep barcodes’, an idea that can revolutionize diagnostic imaging.

Corporations use big data mining to find out everything from the kind of car you want to buy to your favorite holiday destination. Now, doctors are using it to make sure when somebody is diagnosed with cancer — they’ve got it right.

Robert Amelard, a University of Waterloo PhD student in Systems Design Engineering, is making headlines with innovative technology that can help identify health problems before they result in a medical emergency. Waterloo Engineering sat down with Amelard to understand how the revolutionary technology works and what inspired him.

Zhou Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Waterloo, has won an Engineering Emmy® Award for developing computational models that accurately and consistently predict how people view image and video quality, the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced.

Zhou Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Waterloo, has won an Engineering Emmy® Award for developing computational models that accurately and consistently predict how people view image and video quality, the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced.

Neil Sarkar has given new meaning to the expression “put under the microscope.”

The electrical engineering post-doctoral researcher has developed the world’s first single-chip atomic force microscope (AFM) that opens up a world of possibilities for research and development in industries ranging from electronics to bioscience.

Neil Sarkar has invented the world’s first single chip atomic force microscope that is barely visible to the naked eye. It costs a hundred times less than comparable microscopes.