This article focuses on the potential impact of big data analysis to improve health, prevent and detect disease at an earlier stage, and personalize interventions. The role that big data analytics may have in interrog...This article focuses on the potential impact of big data analysis to improve health, prevent and detect disease at an earlier stage, and personalize interventions. The role that big data analytics may have in interrogating the patient electronic health record toward improved clinical decision support is discussed. Weexamine developments in pharmacogenetics that have increased our appreciation of the reasons why patients respond differently to chemotherapy. We also assess the expansion of online health communications and the way in which this data may be capitalized on in order to detect public health threats and control or contain epidemics. Finally, we describe how a new generation of wearable and implantable body sensors may improve wellbeing, streamline management of chronic diseases, and improve the quality of surgical implants.展开更多
This paper presents a multi-agent robotic fish system used for mariculture monitoring. Autonomous robotic fish is designed to swim underwater to collect marine information such as water temperature and pollution level...This paper presents a multi-agent robotic fish system used for mariculture monitoring. Autonomous robotic fish is designed to swim underwater to collect marine information such as water temperature and pollution level. Each robotic fish has 5 degrees of freedom for controlling its depth and speed by milnicking a sea carp. Its bionic body design enables it to have high swimming efficiency and less disturbance to the surrounding sea lives. Several onboard sensors are equipped for autonomous 3D naviga- tion tasks such as path planning, obstacle avoidance and depth maintenance. A robotic buoy floating on the water surface is deployed as a control hub to communicate with individual robots, which in turn form a multi-agent system to monitor and cover a large scale sea coast cooperatively. Both laboratory experiments and field testing have been conducted to verify the feasibility and performance of the proposed multi-agent system.展开更多
Tumour hypoxia is the inevitable consequence of a tumour’s rapid growth and disorganized,inefficient vasculature.The compensatorymechanisms employed by tumours,and indeed the absence of oxygen itself,hinder the abili...Tumour hypoxia is the inevitable consequence of a tumour’s rapid growth and disorganized,inefficient vasculature.The compensatorymechanisms employed by tumours,and indeed the absence of oxygen itself,hinder the ability of all treatmentmodalities.The clinical consequence is poorer overall survival,disease-free survival,and locoregional control.Recognizing this,clinicians have been attenuating the effect of hypoxia,primarily with hypoxicmodification or with hypoxia-activated prodrugs,and notable success has been demonstrated.However,in the case of colorectal cancer(CRC),there is a general paucity of knowledge and evidence surrounding themeasurement andmodification of hypoxia,and this is possibly due to the comparative inaccessibility of such tumours.We specifically review the role of hypoxia in CRC and focus on the current evidence for the existence of hypoxia in CRC,themajority of which originates from indirect positron emission topography imaging with hypoxia selective radiotracers;the evidence correlating CRC hypoxia with poorer oncological outcome,which is largely based on themeasurement of hypoxia inducible factor in correlation with clinical outcome;the evidence of hypoxicmodification in CRC,of which no direct evidence exists,but is reflected in a number of indirectmarkers;the prognostic andmonitoring implications of accurate CRC hypoxia quantification and its potential in the field of precision oncology;and the present and future imaging tools and technologies being developed for themeasurement of CRC hypoxia,including the use of blood-oxygenlevel-dependentmagnetic resonance imaging and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy.展开更多
Artificial intelligence(AI)is gradually changing the practice of surgery with technological advancements in imaging,navigation,and robotic intervention.In this article,we review the recent successful and influential a...Artificial intelligence(AI)is gradually changing the practice of surgery with technological advancements in imaging,navigation,and robotic intervention.In this article,we review the recent successful and influential applications of AI in surgery from preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance to its integration into surgical robots.We conclude this review by summarizing the current state,emerging trends,and major challenges in the future development of AI in surgery.展开更多
文摘This article focuses on the potential impact of big data analysis to improve health, prevent and detect disease at an earlier stage, and personalize interventions. The role that big data analytics may have in interrogating the patient electronic health record toward improved clinical decision support is discussed. Weexamine developments in pharmacogenetics that have increased our appreciation of the reasons why patients respond differently to chemotherapy. We also assess the expansion of online health communications and the way in which this data may be capitalized on in order to detect public health threats and control or contain epidemics. Finally, we describe how a new generation of wearable and implantable body sensors may improve wellbeing, streamline management of chronic diseases, and improve the quality of surgical implants.
文摘This paper presents a multi-agent robotic fish system used for mariculture monitoring. Autonomous robotic fish is designed to swim underwater to collect marine information such as water temperature and pollution level. Each robotic fish has 5 degrees of freedom for controlling its depth and speed by milnicking a sea carp. Its bionic body design enables it to have high swimming efficiency and less disturbance to the surrounding sea lives. Several onboard sensors are equipped for autonomous 3D naviga- tion tasks such as path planning, obstacle avoidance and depth maintenance. A robotic buoy floating on the water surface is deployed as a control hub to communicate with individual robots, which in turn form a multi-agent system to monitor and cover a large scale sea coast cooperatively. Both laboratory experiments and field testing have been conducted to verify the feasibility and performance of the proposed multi-agent system.
基金supported by the National Institute for Health Research(NIHR)Imperial Biomedical Research Centre(BRC).
文摘Tumour hypoxia is the inevitable consequence of a tumour’s rapid growth and disorganized,inefficient vasculature.The compensatorymechanisms employed by tumours,and indeed the absence of oxygen itself,hinder the ability of all treatmentmodalities.The clinical consequence is poorer overall survival,disease-free survival,and locoregional control.Recognizing this,clinicians have been attenuating the effect of hypoxia,primarily with hypoxicmodification or with hypoxia-activated prodrugs,and notable success has been demonstrated.However,in the case of colorectal cancer(CRC),there is a general paucity of knowledge and evidence surrounding themeasurement andmodification of hypoxia,and this is possibly due to the comparative inaccessibility of such tumours.We specifically review the role of hypoxia in CRC and focus on the current evidence for the existence of hypoxia in CRC,themajority of which originates from indirect positron emission topography imaging with hypoxia selective radiotracers;the evidence correlating CRC hypoxia with poorer oncological outcome,which is largely based on themeasurement of hypoxia inducible factor in correlation with clinical outcome;the evidence of hypoxicmodification in CRC,of which no direct evidence exists,but is reflected in a number of indirectmarkers;the prognostic andmonitoring implications of accurate CRC hypoxia quantification and its potential in the field of precision oncology;and the present and future imaging tools and technologies being developed for themeasurement of CRC hypoxia,including the use of blood-oxygenlevel-dependentmagnetic resonance imaging and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy.
文摘Artificial intelligence(AI)is gradually changing the practice of surgery with technological advancements in imaging,navigation,and robotic intervention.In this article,we review the recent successful and influential applications of AI in surgery from preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance to its integration into surgical robots.We conclude this review by summarizing the current state,emerging trends,and major challenges in the future development of AI in surgery.
