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PRISMAp faculty discuss medical AI advances in new Florida Physician article

The UF Health publication Florida Physician featured the Precision and Intelligent Systems Medicine Research Partnership (PRISMAp) lab director Azra Bihorac and faculty partner Tyler Loftus in their fall issue for the story “Medicine’s new frontier.” Dr. Bihorac and Dr. Loftus both explained recent advances in medical…

Artificial Intelligence Learns Treatment Strategies for Hypotension

Congratulations to Dr. Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, Dr. Crystal Johnson-Mann, and Dr. Tyler Loftus for their project “OR-DRD-AI2020: The Artificial Intelligence learns optimal treatment strategies for hypotension in surgery” being selected as an awardee from UF Research, Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund.  The Complication: Hypotension In the United States, where the average…

Discovery and Validation of Urinary Molecular Signature of Early Sepsis

A prospective cohort study by PRISMAp Read the research paper here.  Breaking barriers: PRISMAp researchers, in collaboration with several departments at the University of Florida including Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, UFHealth, and i-Heal, have just completed the first ever study that uses urinary cellular gene expression to examine sepsis.   Kidneys are Key…

Developing a Virtual Reality App to Help Medical Professionals and Patients De-Stress

Researchers at the University of Florida have created virtual reality (VR) software to help medical professionals de-stress from the demands of work and the pandemic. The app, called DREAMS (Digital Rehabilitation Environment Augmenting Medical System), monitors brainwave activity and responds to the user with personalized meditation sessions. Watch the…

Futures Webinar: Precision and Intelligent Systems in Medicine with Azra Bihorac

Join Prof. Bihorac to find out how a multidisciplinary research group of experts in data science, AI, and clinical informatics is developing intelligent clinical decision-making systems and technologies to optimize health care system delivery. Clinical decision-making is dominated by hypothetical-deductive reasoning, individual judgment, and heuristics. These factors can lead to…

A window to the future : Nvidia And University Of Florida

Nvidia And University Of Florida Supercharge Education With AI Supercomputer Nvidia and The University of Florida (UF) are in engaging in a unique public-private partnership that could result in the development of the largest university AI supercomputer in the United States, and perhaps the world. The project is anchored by…

SEMINAR: AZRA BIHORAC

UFL ece news “Augmented Decision Making – How to Implement Machine Learning Prediction into Research and Clinical Care” Thursday, Jan. 16 at 1:00 pm LAR 330 Abstract Clinical decision-making is dominated by hypothetical-deductive reasoning, individual judgment, and heuristics. These factors can lead to bias, error, and preventable harm.

SCCM Pod-400 Are AKI Biomarkers Ready for Clinical Use

SCCM Pod-400 Are AKI Biomarkers Ready for Clinical Use Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FCCM, and Azra Bihorac, MD, MS, FCCM, discuss best practices and complexities of implementing biomarkers for kidney stress and acute kidney injury (AKI) and what the future holds for AKI biomarker literature. Dr. Bihorac was…

Virtual Reality “DREAMS” Helps Patients Cope In ICU

Virtual Reality “DREAMS” Helps Patients Cope In ICU Home And Science Article DREAMs trail  The stress and isolation Dr.Bihorac witnessed as an attending physician at UF Health Shands Hospital led her and her colleague Marko Suvajdzic to develop DREAMS, a virtual reality…

Better Patient Care

http://explore.research.ufl.edu/better-patient-care.html AI system delivers fast, accurate patient data  …