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MIT researchers measure your pulse, detect heart abnormalities with smartphone camera
2013-06-21 21:30:28| Extremetech
Last year, a group of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) showed us just how easy it is to "see" the heartbeat in ordinary video footage. With a little filtering, a little averaging, and a touch of turn-of-the-century (1900) mathematical analysis, the telltale color changes in the skin associated with the peak pressure pulse of the heart can be seen by anyone. The CSAIL researchers have now rejiggled their algorithms to optimize instead for detection of the subtle head motions that are associated with each beat.
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Japan: Thyroid Abnormalities Found in Children Downwind from Fukushima
2013-03-10 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A doctor conducts a thyroid test during a rehearsal in October before the start of a Fukushima prefectural government program. Photo: Asahi Shimbun Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima. They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever. Two years after Fukushima exploded, three still-smoldering reactors remind us that the nuclear power industry repeatedly told the...
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