Similarity-based AI for Rare Diseases The RareSim project aims at developing novel AI-based approaches to support physicians in their tasks of helping rare disease patient (in particular for diagnosis). Whilst these more than 7000 rare diseases each afflict less than 2000 people, it is estimated that for all these diseases… Read More »RareSim
The Apéro Digital event series are regular in-person gatherings for those who are interested in science and technology to meet and discuss pressing issues related to digitalization, innovations and society in a systematic and argumentative way. Apéro Digital is composed of public talks around topics related to human-centered technology and value-based… Read More »Apéro Digital
Project state closed Project start April 2024 Funding duration 18 months Universities involved ZHAW, ZHdK Practice partners Kantonsspital Winterthur, VAMED Rehazentrum Zürich ExerUp Portal provides information on exergames and their potential in the areas of health, training and therapy. The platform is aimed at interested parties from research, practice and… Read More »Exergames for Health – Bringing digital and motivating forms of therapy and training to the clinic and public
MindfulPacer MindfulPacer is an innovative platform made up of a smartwatch application and a smartphone app. The platform helps people affected by Long Covid manage their symptoms by providing them with real-time data related to their physical activity. The research prototype is now to be made publicly available and, in… Read More »Growing a public self-sustaining community for Activity Pacing and Long Covid patients
Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 18 months Universities involved UZH / USZ Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 72’949 Interpreting laboratory results and deriving a diagnosis from them is a common and demanding task in medicine. The team has developed a clinical decision support system (CDSS)… Read More »Clinical decision support system for the interpretation of blood lab results and diagnosis based on them
Project state closed Project start April 2023 Funding duration 15 months Universities involved ZHAW Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 71’871 The project developed a smartwatch that helps children with ADHD concentrate better on their schoolwork. With a prevalence of 5-7% among children, the technology offers an innovative alternative to… Read More »Focus Watch
Project state closed Project start April 2024 Funding duration 15 months Universities involved ZHAW The projectteam developed a hardware and software platform to enable real-time smart 3D vision for assistive robots. https://youtu.be/3KgJS77iBcc?si=SmFt6iK0T0iDpKby A novel hardware system was developed that integrates a pair of event-based vision sensors (DVS) and a pair… Read More »YuRo: Real-time 3D vision for robots
Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 10 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Bellevue Medical Group Funding amount DIZH CHF 70’334 The main goal of this project was to improve the existing data collection infrastructure to gather the data needed for objective fatigue measurement. In particular, we… Read More »Redefining standard fatigue assessments through novel digital biomarkers
Stroke DynamiX explores data-driven stroke management using machine-learning techniques in a consortium of statistics researchers, translational enablers, and clinical partners. We implement statistical tools to dynamically model stroke epidemiologically and predict real-time sepsis onset in the clinic. Core team: Dr. Georg Spinner, ZHAW Life Sciences und Facility Management Prof. Dr.… Read More »Stroke DynamiX
Design of an Algorithm-supported Toolkit for effective Information Management in Intensive Care The intensive care unit is a hectic environment where medical staff complain of critical overload from numerical values and curves displayed by various medical devices. To reduce the burden on clinical staff, this project aims to design user-centric… Read More »IC-DATIM