Medical Engineering

The development of medical equipment, products and technical procedures is characterized by high research and development costs in a variety of fields related to the study of human medicine.

innovations-report provides informative and stimulating reports and articles on topics ranging from imaging processes, cell and tissue techniques, optical techniques, implants, orthopedic aids, clinical and medical office equipment, dialysis systems and x-ray/radiation monitoring devices to endoscopy, ultrasound, surgical techniques, and dental materials.

Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule

… that might help treat obesity. Swallowing the device before a meal could create a sense of fullness, tricking the brain into thinking it’s time to stop eating. When you…

World’s first reconstructive surgery on the central lymphatic system

… using a microsurgery robot at USZ. Because it was not possible to remove a hard-to-reach bulge in the central lymphatic system, a team of doctors from the Department of…

Evaluating Brain Tumours with Artificial Intelligence

Best Paper Award: Outstanding Publication by TU Researchers Recognised. One application area of artificial intelligence (AI) is in medicine, especially in medical diagnostics. For instance, scans can be analysed automatically…

Understanding and fighting tumors better with new algorithms

The University Hospital Zurich, the University of Zurich and the diagnostics company Roche are expanding their collaboration in cancer research. In the fully digitalized Morphomolecular Pathology Laboratory, they are developing…

Unstable ‘fluttering’ predicts aortic aneurysm

With 98% accuracy, new metric predicted aneurysm development on average three years prior to occurrence. Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a…

New Microscope: ComplexEye and AI

…enable Faster Migration Analysis of Immune Cells. Immune cells fight infectious intruders, for example, or search for incipient cancers. Therefor, they are constantly migrating through the tissues of our body….

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