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information about the footfalls. biggest turn. everything you need about the 2022 broke up on he w when current medical science has run out of options and doctors don't know where to turn, artificial intelligence might be able to help. particularly when it comes to extreme cases. it gives me hope medic, so getting more and more assistance from computer technology these days. we're not talking about any kind of super powers but valuable tools. we want it and own us. we don't want to get rid of specialist eye. doctor is one, we want to empower them. we want to give them better equipment and make them better ophthalmologist, who can treat patients more effectively. they say artificial intelligence as a big opportunity. one that can take medicine into completely new dimensions. but

some fear i i, i see collapse firstly i can completely understand that i, i, applications can make people wary. i was losing so what does artificial intelligence mean for medicine? how can it help to improve people's lives? mean cornelia nixa hasn't been living in this small apartment in northern berlin for long the 63 year old had never imagined that she would move home again until fight sent her family's life upside down. her daughter and it's a suffered a stroke shortly after the birth of her 2nd child. since then, she's been unable to move or communicate. the name of her condition is locked in

syndrome. it has changed everything. until here you can see how pretty my daughter is. that she was pregnant there he can tell her daughter needs round the clock care. her son in law and grand children are on their own. cornelia nits is trying to do what she can to support the young family. it's been 2 years now since that fateful day. she had gone no longer. she suffered brain hemorrhaging hole and a stroke of demons else. and the someone from the neighbourhood said that they must have spent about half an hour resuscitating her in the ambulance. and con waddle canal in it, so it's only left with memories. her daughter, a psychology graduate, was a happy, fun, loving person. now her family can only guess what she's feeling the kind she can't heart. if she moves like this, you can tell something isn't right,

less but you are helpless. so i will, you can't do anything really him can i wish smile several times a week. cornelia knits a helps her son in law with the household and with the children. so they at least get a bit of normality and kinda like the children are suffering because they are without a mother. the girl is growing up without a mom how the couple had just built their own home. when anna had a stroke, her husband nickel and the keeper of was suddenly left to deal with everything on his own. for ya, koya. alice, everything's open. ah, ah, hello. hi there, i'm here now. it's finished on the 37 year old i t specialist often works from home after his wife stroke. he tried to care for her time, but it was too much for him and the children now days and a need so lives in a care hun,

her condition. and then the separation from her has placed a great strain on them. ccr loans as the 1st year was very difficult. m i'm in the meantime, we've come to terms where the to some extent and that i think it must number f one . we've got a routine set now facility. we visit her once or twice a week together, and as i mild walker it's i my local but in the care home to communication remains the biggest problem. young i visited on on wednesday when the vase she was quiet at 1st, but then she started crying. i think she still has versus a pain. she was altered on her family and nursing care personnel can only guess how and anita is feeling recognizing the needs of locked in syndrome sufferers and looking after them. 247 is a strenuous business of facility media. and with ya, i've tried to work out

a cold with her langers blends in. let us slow blank stands for yes. and to blanks for know as a risk, when you can, you can call that proper communication is my, my biggest wish would be that this were somehow possible. again, live leash. yeah. i mean with the families hopes arresting on research being carried out at berlin shower at a hospital niccolini. kiefer of contacted scientists. they a few weeks ago, colorado than the michigan of to see do when i came across a video by the professor 1000 to the i think it was a tax talk where he showed what progress was being made in the treatment of stroke patients in the to golf luck, my biggest goal would be re establishing some form of communication, the student, and then coming, got students vague. ah, the death of the income making this dream come true is what professor solias could are hopes to achieve with his research. the neurotechnology specialist is working

on solutions to could help patients like an a nit said to communicate again using artificial intelligence and the communication between brain and computer. to put it simply the human thinks and the computer acts. i feel if it's a video of it's my goal to improve conditions. so as many people as possible can benefit from this technology and see the quality of life improve. and i won't let the set back slow me down. applying neurotechnology which connects our nervous system with computers. ames to help people like and in it's, i have a new life. at berlin chart, a hospital. they have already been successful tests with patients who are partly paralyzed. guido shultz, i used to work as a painter 2 years ago, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor during an operation. a blood vessel burst in his brain. since then,

he's been paralyzed on his left side. as of the 20 honey, i can't actively open or closed my hand so good on this. i also can't even do it in my thoughts with him or the thought. awesome. when we're healthy, we don't give it a 2nd thought, and you don't mean we just make a movement. and now i really have to try to do something and it's not easy. moe and danny's all to day, guido should say his testing whether he might be able to use his hand better by using a so called hand exoskeleton. the wearable technology is controlled by his thoughts yuki to sound as ya desk. we are doing this so we can reorganize the brain. and this reorganization should have a favourable effect on restoring function, easy dashed it from till the organs reorganized. it sounds as if everything here is jumbled up and will have to be sorted again, was it only or not?

and the idea is that uninjured parts of the brain will take over the functions of the affected areas together with the exoskeleton. guido is given a cap that can read his electrical brain signals. when the patient thinks about moving his hand, the computer recognizes that impulse and saves it, comparing it with the signals that his brain emits when he's not actively thinking . the computer is only able to learn because of the information that was taught to it by human programmers. they have fit it with algorithms and commands that help it increasingly better understand when guido short so wants to move his hand. like right now the program understands what to do for it. the bible is now bernoulli in my hand. with a come on the i to the lowest. he has a healthy person. you can't imagine it,

but it's crazy. you want to close your hand and it just happens. it's a bit spooky. that is, this is mike, something from science fiction science fiction. the process is still being tested machine that can read your thoughts. that sounds frightening and is the source of much public debate. many people are critical of artificial intelligence. these are fundamental against me. in my opinion, this form of intelligence cannot be compared with human intelligence. we're talking about computers that have been programmed to follow certain rules. if we raise awareness about how the systems actually function, it will become clear to everyone that they are not intelligent at all. they don't possess intelligence in the way we humans do. i need to ligans, i'm the dimension professor circuit. i would like his research to help people in extremely difficult situations, such as an a nits are trapped in her own body or kito shelter,

who is paralyzed on one side. as a, as soon as nearly tuesdays or the exoskeleton has stimulated my hand mill, so that gives me hope that it might improve little force. i can imagine that if you train it over a longer period of time that it will return to life annoyingly so that's what we hope for right, that it will get back to normal. what are the thoughts of either stop signal, middle lou here on the outskirts of the austrian capital is where oscar slammer land. it's with his wife. hi de marie. the retiree suffers from age related macular degeneration, or am date of it can lead to with severe loss of vision,

as you go into my, by the way, sort of, i did also resna mission. fluid is collecting in his eyes and is slowly destroying his eye sight. now, does it answer the worst case scenario? doesn't bear thinking about such elegantly from them. it would mean that i would have to fundamentally change my life. i recently am done completely understood, understood. mm. hm. oh, oscar salmonella has worn glasses since he was a child. but one day, all of a sudden his vision started to deteriorate. on 3, on 3 years ago, i really started to notice that my eyesight was failing office. he did an excellent grade test that isn't this man, and this test involves taking a piece of paper with a grid and ok, so and covering one eye at a time on or for the you look at it and see whether all the mines are running parallel ups or whether they look wavy. ah,

this is a, does it say a wavy? it's a clear sign that something is wrong with him. and the problem is that if it isn't treated quickly, it can lead to a loss of vision and that is awful, not the upper sixty's there. what's awful about the disease is that many patients suffer an extreme loss of vision, even if they do get treatment. osgood sama hopes to avoid that by going for regular checkups at vienna general hospital. oh and patients like oscars, sam allowed regularly get a drug injected directly into their eyes. but it's unpleasant and doesn't work well for every one. time. thus saith, and that was good. how many injections as the patient already had? the hot in the cities already had 12, children who are using magnification,

the doctor can get only a rough idea of any changes to the retina. but it's hard to tell how far the disease has progressed from these white areas which makes treatment difficult. and it's hard to know what dosage would be required when merced as a fair in every one to carry out as many of these injections as necessary. but as few as possible, each injection into the eye hurts and carries of risk of infection to come in. the medication is also expensive from the sick fixing. it contains small, specially produced quantities of anti bodies. and patients get these injections for the rest of their life versus that it's important that we do that as economically as possible, which means it often costs a 1000 euros per injection. that's why the doctor's in vienna want to take a closer look at. osgood slammed his eyes. an imaging procedure is used to give a cross section view of the eye and retina. it let's,

the doctor's better assess the extent of the disease. gosti had a rental is raised there. he's in, it's a retina, is very sensitive to see it consist purely of nerve cells which should not be interfered with. and given far in this case, fluid is gathering under the retina, which is lifting it up a paper. but the procedure doesn't reveal exactly how much fluid has gathered there . so professor schmidt effort decided to design a program that could do just that. it was fed with the data of many other patients with the same condition. and it can tell exactly how much fluid pulls under the retina in blue here. the program allows osgood slamming his treatment to be talent . that this is gung, knowing how this treatment works has given me a whole different perspective on things. personally, i feel much more reassured,

gave miss semi's. so could better plan to take a seat hordes a messenger for today. we've measured 45 nanometers us is. that's roughly what it was last time, so we won't have to treat you today. the size here, mr. ben, this brandon? hi, thank you. thanks for the informational. this is lindsey, it's good to know these possibilities are now available. is included curtain in give their strength, uncle wilson. so it's a big vision for the future. the autism on this on this i exam only takes fractions of a 2nd talk time with our didn't, it's not invasive, is reasonably priced and can be performed anywhere and assessed with the help of artificial intelligence again. so i was given it to me and it can replace many other invasive procedures with women as a person come i, i can potentially make diagnostic detective work easier. keep medical costs down, and most importantly, reduce human suffering in

berlin and, and it's a has come to spend 2 hours at home with her family. professors zilk of his team has come to try out a new communication system with them. title i buy stock men own dinosaurs. i mean since his stroke and, and it's a has been suffering from blocked in syndrome. she can't move her body, but she is fully conscious and can hear everything yet. she cannot communicate with the doctor wants to change that with the help of a i must via eyes. the mission is what we would like to achieve is to create an

interface which is based on bodily signals that are very easy to control systems and whether the aim is that and in it. so be able to learn how to communicate using eye movements that the young woman's condition is different day to day. sometimes she's just not up to it going on like the amount of, oh, and as you are not, are you in pain again? so i said, oh, i don't know whether to touch her or not. oh yeah. who's my se? well, she's crying, maybe she's in pain, but we don't really know fletch manser our business at it quickly becomes apparent that and in it's a won't managed to take part in the test to day. but the family to needs to learn. the system said that they will be able to work with anna independently. it's the 1st step on a long journey. but they, it's using this where they are. and what we're seeing now is the simplest form of

test, with which we can try to restore communication in locked in syndrome with blinking or eye movements only the well. the principle is that the computer learns sit in eye movements and carries out commands associated with them. for example, turning a light on or off. when comes in love, it's now turns off and then on. it's on. and, but it's not as simple as it looks like to work it. you have to be able to move your eyes both vertically and horizontally. and init sir can only do that now and again. and it takes a lot of effort. but the system nevertheless offers the 1st glimmer of hub to the family which dean curtis craig, and i think we'll manage it. that's good. and oh, we'll continue practicing with an kernan m m in bethesda. but also we have to take into account that anna's condition also varies widely. rather,

it depends on how much concentration she can muster to day her concentration is at its limit. the 2 hour visit is over before and in. it's a contrie out the system herself. 0, one 0, on the other, it's time for us to go back now. in the next few weeks and months, professor zillow could as tame will keep on trying. it's a drawn out process, but every one is hoping that and, and it's and her family will learn to communicate with one another again. in it's in university hospital in western germany, lily lawman has come for an important check. up 4 weeks ago, her son thomas donated half his liver to his mum saving her life.

when out of half shot wanted i was asked and of course i said yes because your parents also give you a lot aiden's i'm is all part of being a parent is also about sacrifice. wonder i was asked then i thought that, oh yes, just do it. most of us are vermont. fish and i had my naturally other course along the way. you start having doubt. zoe. if you ask, am i doing the right thing? what am i doing to my son? a something could go wrong and canal with the other m. o n s and university hospital more than a 100 organ, transplants are carried out each year as a so called smart hospital. it also works with artificial intelligence. in the transplant center, computer science experts and doctors like professor utsa chillik and dr. felix

ninfa worked together. calculating the size of the liver correctly is vital for transplant success. a c t scan creates a multi layered image of the organ. the doctor then marks the liver tissue. it's not a very exact procedure. artificial intelligence can scrutinize each image more closely, a ye dessert of about the i. i basically ensures that a human doesn't have to draw anything by hand yet a shift. it can determine the difference between liber tissue and other tissue on every single layer of it was of this was how the i calculated the exact location of tall must lumens live up. his mother was given exactly half. a mistake in the calculation could have been fatal. i he, for these have been as an extreme fish value kenzie, i missed off knowing these measurements as critical mohammed us. we can't open her

up and say, oh it's too small. and so her up again, had that really shouldn't happen. that's why it's extremely important for us to ensure that the calculation is exactly righty. which was my vitally important ass hot. yeah, that's why doctor an enzyme made one manual drawing based on his observation and done, and then one with the help of artificial intelligence. matuse it a conclusion into against forces. and you did the same for my son to know exactly for if we humans wanted to be as precise as the i, we'd probably need to invest not just half an hour, but an hour and a half or so yet. so luckily with a i, you can do it in seconds. these all in sequin when as all gone, so claim an examination that's considerably faster and more precise. it offers a better chance that the valuable organ will not be rejected to know as, as the ad i to the never works really, really well. and the doctor operating on me told me to take good care of it. uh huh

. and his mother and son can look ahead again with optimism. they're not concerned about having their data stored centrally in the hospital. since we're behind as good as audit, i'm happy for them to have the data model. if something happened, they'd be able to act immediately. yet critics often cite dash or privacy issues as one of the reasons for skepticism about artificial intelligence. but research data is always anonymized. oliver, esther is in charge of tracking the eyes development. in this case, the program is learning how to potentially distinguish between healthy and seek liver cells. as was movers in nicholas, it's possible to observe the development process and see what progress is being made during training. i'm, i'm was the discount you have to imagine it is like an ongoing program. you have to be able to see how good it is at every stage of the training with the sector. and

yet artificial intelligence is only as good as the dash. it's supplied with and the people programming it was high because it is called artificial intelligence. but it is completely artificial and there is nothing intelligent about it. so being able to react intelligently to when you challenge that something that way humans can do and i can't humans are intelligent machines are precise and quick mot. medicine is making the most of these combined strengths. professor z o could as team at berlin chart. i hospital has been visiting anna nits of the months now to develop a new form of communication for her. with some success, she is starting to express herself with i'm movements. i

was each is as my 1st you see her blinking normally. and then she makes a definite eye movement to switch on the light at their 1st success, a tiny one, but one that's encouraging for all concerned since you are designing the hutch, i would say she has made progress, but progress is slow. and while some expectations often filled up as onto vase learning, processes need time. is it out of what they said? the power tight to make progress easier, more efficient and less exhausting. the research is now trying out a new type of sensor. these so called quantum senses measure the magnetic fields about the skull. very precisely. they would mean that patients like and in it so

would no longer need to make tiring eye movements to be able to communicate with. so i missed him. there was a system like this would enable ms. nixa to clearly communicate what might be causing her discomfort. and on the other hand, to organize her personal care in the past, for example, to communicate whether she wants to sit up or lie on her side. she missed her oft, as i did either. at present this system can only be used in a laboratory setting telephone shannon's right. yeah. i hear in berlin, the i specialists are also developing the ais learning process at the same time, in real time, the programs are coming through the huge quantities of darcia produce, showing the measurements they're looking for passions. that's how they learn to distinguish between a person's brain signals. that ability is key to artificial intelligence.

as a, let's lisky to say, emma, on the ultimately it's always about the interaction between humans and technology. so for best and improving this interaction, so you no longer notice where one starts and the other stops. that's monday. it's about combining these powers so that people with restricted movement can move again mitchum with all putting this at their disposal so they can manage everyday life like everyone else, v. m, you dot and the damage in my taxwise come ah, enter nits and her family. professors so could as research could mean an enormous step forward making their lives a bit easier and introducing a bit of normality is the this, as i see it as the only chance to help us know who bought to help my wife. what am i not all to hell from the hoffman the see if we hope that science makes well progress. and so a lot of people can be helped to mention alcohol. my daughter is not the only one

effected. there are no doubt quite a few people like her val. it's not just a few isolated individuals who are special intelligence can help to improve health care by improving diagnostic procedures and cutting costs. but blind enthusiasm is just as misplaced as blind distrust. if it can help us to reduce suffering. we shouldn't be afraid of using ai aah rearing to read. ah! everyone who loves books has to go insane. with

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