A miniaturized version of a musical instrument developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, can’t produce actual music, but it may improve the quality of medical images, according to research published in the October issue of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.

The one-year grants—ranging from $3,000 to $40,000—were made possible by Canon Medical Systems USA’s support of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research & Education R&E Foundation, according to a Canon Medical Systems press release published Nov. 12.

The FDA recently administered 510(k) clearance to software developed by MaxQ AI that uses AI to detect brain bleeds on CT images, according to a report published Nov. 8 by AI in Healthcare.

A team at the University of Queensland in Australia is working on a digital pathology slide technique that would speed up patient diagnosis and help address the country’s pathologist shortage, according to a university release.

Real-time MRI footage of beat boxers was recently presented at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on Nov. 7, according to a recent report by Popular Science.

Researchers created and validated a deep learning algorithm to improve the detection of polyps during colonoscopy, according to a study published in the latest issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City found convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained to detect pneumonia on chest x-rays performed poorly when tested on data from outside health systems, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in PLOS Medicine.

Imperial College London announced its plans to open the London Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Center for Value-Based Healthcare thanks to £10 million ($13 million) in recently awarded funds, according to a university news release published Nov. 6.