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2024
As a student at DTU, Sara Sterlie has analysed ChatGPT and revealed that the online service is extremely stereotypical when it comes to gender roles. Photo: Frida Gregersen
20 MAR

Researchers surprised by gender stereotypes in ChatGPT

A DTU student has analysed ChatGPT and revealed that the online service is extremely stereotypical when it comes to gender roles. The analysis is the first step towards providing AI developers with a tool for testing against all types of discriminatory bias.

Information technology Mathematics Medicine and medico technology
The black wristband was worn by the children during the pilot trail. The next version of Wrist Angel will look like a regular sports watch. Photo: DTU.
20 MAR

AI wristband may be an effective tool in future child and adolescent psychiatry

A digital wristband that can predict obsessive thought episodes in children and adolescents with OCD using AI has shown good results in a pilot trail.

Information technology Mathematics Medicine and medico technology
2023
Lab on a chip prototype
13 JUN

Cyber systems collaboration could help bring "lab on a chip" into the real world

Getting a complex piece of hardware to work with all the variables of the real world is difficult. But through a DIREC-project collaboration, Luca Pezzarossa got much closer to having a working prototype.

Information technology Mathematics Medicine and medico technology Biotechnology and biochemistry
2022
Masanga Hospital
10 JUN

DTU students support sustainable healthcare in Sierra Leone

Two DTU students help medical doctors save lives and improve the patient experience through technical support at Masanga Hospital.

Medicine and medico technology Medical equipment and systems
Lasse Engbo Christiansen, DTU Compute. Credit: Hanne Kokkegård
02 MAY

DTU Mathematician to help SSI build up an expert group

Lasse Engbo Christiansen has been central in the group that has calculated the development of the pandemic and the effect of restrictions and reopening.

Biotechnology and biochemistry Mathematics Health and diseases
Associate Professor Yiyu Ou and Professor Paul Michael Petersen, DTU Fotonik. Foto: Thomas Sørensen.
28 FEB

UV light: A path away from antimicrobial resistance

By using UV light, we can treat infectious diseases including COVID-19 without antimicrobials, a new review study from DTU indicates. The invited review article is adapted to the WHO’s COVID-19 research database.

Lasers Optics Medicine and medico technology Bacteria and microorganisms Viruses
Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen, institutdirektør DTU Sundhedsteknologi. Foto: DTU
23 FEB

Higher pace of technological healthcare development needed

Op-ed by Jan Ardenkjær-Larsen, head of DTU Health Tech. Published in the Danish political media Altinget 21 February 2022.

Medicine and medico technology Health and diseases
Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) elemental mapping of a CGO film (~1.25 μm-thick) sample. For comparison, the EDX mapping images of different elements (Gd, Ce, O, Pt, Cr, Al, and Si) are presented separately. Credit: D.-S. Park et al.
18 FEB

A possible paradigm shift within piezoelectricity

Scientists find a new method to induce the piezoelectric effect in non-piezoelectric materials. It may enable new uses and safer materials. 

Electrotechnology Electronics Micro and nanotechnology Materials Medicine and medico technology Medical equipment and systems
Foto: Jesper Scheel
14 FEB

Virtual training can enhance hearing experience

Researchers from DTU and Rigshospitalet will improve the sound experience for the deaf or hearing impaired through virtual training with the help of the signals their implant sends to the brain.

Sound Hearing aids Health and diseases
New study line in digital health. Photo: Jesper Scheel, DTU.
10 FEB

New digital health study line at DTU

DTU increases admission to the Biomedical Engineering programme, creating a new study line in digital health.

Medicine and medico technology Medical equipment and systems Health and diseases Information technology Image analysis Data analysis Software and programming
Jens Hjortkjær and Torsten Dau
09 FEB

New research centre will strengthen hearing health

The Centre for Auditory Neuroscience will provide fundamental knowledge that will enable better solutions for hearing impaired.

Medicine and medico technology Hearing aids Health and diseases
Foto: Thomas Sørensen
31 JAN

Spinout will stop chronic implant infections

New nanotechnological solution prevents bacteria from sticking to surface of implants. It solves a growing problem with infections.

Bacteria and microorganisms Health and diseases
First eight Principal Components identified in the dataset. For each component, the blue and red areas express opposite directions of variation. Credit: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) / Cortex: ’Data-driven analysis of gaze patterns in face perception: Methodological and clinical contributions’.
27 JAN

Eye movements and machine learning reveal signs of illness

DTU algorithm analyzes patterns in eye movements in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders and helps in diagnosis.

Information technology Mathematics Medicine and medico technology
BrainCapture. An affordable, Bluetooth enabled electrode cap. An app for datacollection and upload to cloud. A Quality Control (QC) algorithm to enable clean data collection by non-expert workers.
26 JAN

EU support for low-cost medical equipment for epilepsy

DTU spinout BrainCapture receives DKK 40 million from EIC and private investors to get equipment for diagnostics on the market.

Information technology Mathematics Medicine and medico technology
Morten Nielsen
21 JAN

Vaccine development requires super-fast computing power

Calculating large amounts of data is crucial in combating pandemics and in developing individual treatment of patients.

Medicine and medico technology Health and diseases Computer calculations
Maria Ormhøj
21 JAN

Personalised cancer treatment: The cure of the future

Postdoc at DTU Health Tech, Maria Ormhøj, works with CAR T-cell cancer therapy with focus on brain tumours.

Medicine and medico technology Health and diseases Cells Genes and genomes
Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen
19 JAN

The health care industry needs more engineers

Medical science has evolved from a craft to a science. Therefore, engineers can help a health care system that is under pressure, according to Professor Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen.

Health and diseases Data analysis
2021
Aasa Feragen er professor på DTU Compute, Foto: Bax Lindhardt
29 NOV

Explainable AI to increase hospitals' use of AI

In a new DIREC project, AI researchers are collaborating with hospitals to create more useful AI and AI algorithms that are easier to understand.

Mathematics Medicine and medico technology Information technology
PhD graduation DTU 2021
26 NOV

Best PhD Thesis at DTU in 2021 goes to a DTU Health Tech PhD Student

At DTU’s annual PhD graduation ceremony, Nikolaj Kofoed Mandsberg’s PhD Thesis was elected best at DTU in 2021.

Medicine and medico technology