Health care systems in Canada and countries around the world are challenged by increasing demands for services, while providing those services within fixed health agency budgets. To address these challenges, the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation, Loblaw Company Limited and Green Shield Canada has formed a collaborative partnership. The proposed research will engage academic […]

Data analysis plays an important role in healthcare as it enables service providers to discover hidden knowledge in the data, allowing them make more informed decisions about patients’ health. The continuing increase in the amount of data and lack of skilled people, however, has made data analysis very challenging. This project aims at developing web-based […]

Sitting for long periods of time has negative health effects that could be solved by changing posture throughout the day. The solution lies in the use of sit-stand desks, active seats, and automated reminders to change position. For this purpose, this project focuses on developing software that can intelligently determine a person’s posture using sensors […]

Computer Algebra Systems (CAS), with their unique ability to analyze and solve mathematical problems, are gathering new communities of users, who challenge them with more and more complex tasks. It is necessary, therefore, that the core engines of CAS implement state-of-the-art algorithms. At the same time, CAS need to build new bridges to specialized software […]

The project aims at developing prototype of a new ultrasonic based device to monitor and maintain oil-water interface position and oil layer height. Need for such a device has been identified for applications in oil-water separators commonly used in a number of processes. The ability to monitor interface position as well as liquid-layer thickness is […]

This proposed research aims at developing a fully automated computerized system for multiple spinal disease diagnosis. It improves the efficiency of the current clinically workflow. The development of the research is based on the state-of-the-art computer vision and image processing techniques. To the best of our knowledge, our group is the first group focusing on […]

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are becoming very attractive for scientific applications targeting high performance Many application software have gained massive speedup factors by integrating GPU support, in particular in numerical computing. Symbolic computation is also entering the area of many-core computing but the use of GPUs in the major computer algebra systems (MAPLE, Mathematica) is […]

The Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance (CASDA) was created to develop and implement a comprehensive National Autism Strategy (NAS) to addresses critical gaps in funding and policies which are preventing autistic individuals and their families from exercising their equal rights as Canadians. COVID-19 has created additional challenges for families across Canada that must be taken […]

Surgical training is increasingly being done using simulator technology in order to teach basic skills to residents without risking patients’ lives. However, neurosurgery lags behind other surgical specialties in the adoption of simulators. Since there are no commercial simulators in this domain, the National Research Council has embarked on a neurosurgery simulator development program, in […]

The subject of this research project is the innovative and proprietary Liquid-Solid Circulating Fluidized Bed (LSCFB) technology that achieves Continuous Fluidized Ion Exchange (C.F.I.X.). This patented technology combines the benefits of fluidization with uninterrupted continuous resin regeneration to provide increased production efficiency and capacity. The main objective of the project is to study particle flow […]

The long-term economic viability of the Canadian forestry sector has been threatened for several years now due to many reasons such as high energy and fibers costs, and the falling demand for key products (such as newsprint). At the same time, the country’s chemical processing industry has also suffered a major downturn from the lack […]

Pain is a combination of mental, physical and social factors. This makes it difficult to understand and even more difficult to treat. Chronic pain is unique to the individual, and to treat it effectively requires a better understanding of how pain is generated in each person. The goal of this study is to describe the […]