Soluble AXL, a new blood biomarker for early detection of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common type of pancreatic cancer. Its aggressive nature, resistance to current...
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Julia Arribas
- Mar 1
- 2 min
New symptoms associated to pancreatic cancer
A recent investigation carried out in Oxford University in U. K (1) has released some information about the #symptoms associated to...
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Javier García
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
Interpretation of CT scan images: DICOM format
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (#DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of #medicalimaging...
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Julia Arribas
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging
Artificial intelligence (#AI), through Deep Learning (#DL), allows to analyse a great number of images and extract specific features....
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Javier García
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Deeper look on ML and predictive models
As we commented in previous posts of this blog, Machine learning (#ML) is a subset of techniques within the concept of...
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Julia Arribas
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
Keys for early diagnosis in hereditary pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is usually diagnosed at a late stage and the survival rate is often very low. Getting to know risk factors is of...
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Sara Toledano
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
The best podcasts and books for entrepreneurs
As any young startup or any entrepreneur with a revolutionary idea and no prior experience in the field, maybe you went through the...
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Sycai Technologies
- Dec 30, 2020
- 2 min
What a better time to start a startup?
It’s fair to say that 2020 has been a year like no other... However, among all the challenges, there have also been many things worth...
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Júlia Rodríguez Comas
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
Pancreatic cancer, a highly lethal disease
Pancreatic cancer is a highly fatal disease with less than a 10% of 5-year #survival rate. The high mortality rate is mainly caused by...
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Júlia Rodríguez Comas
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
Pancreatic cystic lesions: Increasingly common incidental findings
Pancreatic cystic lesions are increasingly common incidental findings on abdominal imaging tests. However, the prevalence of pancreatic...
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Javier García
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
Overview on the regulatory path for software medical devices
You might have heard several times that the key to success is not the idea but the path you follow to make it attractive to the...
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Sara Toledano
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
Trends in the healthcare sector
As you probably know, and probably you already heard several times, the digital transformation of the healthcare sector is here. That...
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Júlia Rodríguez Comas
- Sep 15, 2020
- 2 min
How healthcare experts are managing the COVID-19 crisis
I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Tamar Garzón, a Medical Internist at Hospital Santa Caterina in Girona. Tamar explains in...
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Sara Toledano
- Sep 1, 2020
- 3 min
How COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation in healthcare
COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our world: our routines, relationships, jobs, and every single aspect of our lives. Besides the...
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Júlia Rodríguez Comas
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
Biological neural networks
Both, #neuroscience and deep learning face a similar challenge: how do neural networks, consisting of interconnected elements, transform...
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Javier García
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min
Typical applications of Deep Learning in image analysis: classification, detection and segmentation.
Based on the previous post we did in which we made an introduction on #DeepLearning, we continue now presenting the typical network...
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Sara Toledano
- Aug 17, 2020
- 2 min
Why is everyone talking about MedTech companies?
Nowadays the healthcare sector is trendy, no doubt. Due to the COVID-19 situation everyone is talking about vaccines, serological tests,...
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Júlia Rodríguez Comas
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
The pancreas, a target tissue for the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
#Diabetes is a major comorbidity of COVID-19, being a key risk factor for developing severe #COVID19 [1]. Indeed, people with the...
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Júlia Rodríguez Comas
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic
The coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic continues to spread, confronting healthcare professionals worldwide with unprecedented clinical and...
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Julia Arribas
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
How to detect precursor lesions of pancreatic cancer earlier: the importance of pancreatic cysts
Did you know that the number of pancreatic cystic lesions diagnosed has significantly increased in recent years? It is mainly due to the...
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