To help make lung imaging and diagnostics more accessible, the University of Waterloo’s co-op students are working with Deep Breathe, a lung health company, providing healthcare workers and the public with tools that use ultrasound and AI for assessments.
Typically, lung imaging requires patients to wait for a chest x-ray. However, the lung ultrasound technology under development is automated, radiation-free, and designed for universal accessibility. Its portable and user-friendly design allows it to be used wherever the patient is –whether in an ambulance, a nursing home, or other non-hospital settings.
The co-op students are supporting the product development by using their program skills and setting up online machine learning tools to host Deep Breathe’s technology in the cloud and much more. They are helping to make ultrasounds more convenient and aim to tackle a multitude of prevalent lung illnesses and conditions.
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