The Ophthalmology department of CHUM receives almost 400 patients per day, each of which needs to go through different tests and consultations. Scheduling those appointments is a complicated task as it involves multiple shared resources, precedent constraints between tests, and uncertainty in tests’ durations, cancellations, emergency patients, etc. The current manual scheduling at the department […]

Every year in the United States alone, over 30 million surgical incisions are performed, and another 7 million wounds are causes by trauma. Most of those wounds will heal on their own, but nonetheless always lead to scarring no matter what kind of material is used to close the wound. There are a range of […]

Considerable growth in the global population and economy leads to an increase in fuel demand. This requires production of clean fuels with minimum CO2 emissions to maintain climate, energy, political, and social security. Hydrogen is a promising carbon-free fuel that can be produced from various renewable sources such as wind and biological systems. The microalgal […]

Le projet vise à utiliser l’intelligence artificielle pour en venir, à terme, à analyser les données boursières pertinentes en lien avec une stratégie d’investissement de type “Qualité” et en extraire des indicateurs de cause à effet ayant un pouvoir prédictif par l’utilisation d’une approche de « Machine Learning » (« Deep Neural Network », « […]

D’ici les trente prochaines années, il est anticipé que les deux tiers de la population mondiale résideront en milieu urbain. Cette statistique presse les villes à organiser leurs infrastructures dans une logique sans précédent afin de conserver ou d’améliorer la qualité de vie des citoyens. La rapidité avec laquelle la population croît et l’indisponibilité des […]

Heart transplantation depends on being able to move a donor heart from the location of harvest to the hospital where it will be implanted, and having the heart work once it is implanted. The time between excision and implantation is called the ischemic time. The safe ischemic time is about 4 to 6 hrs; hearts […]

Presently, tunicates pose a serious challenge for the mussel aquaculture industry in PEI and Atlantic Provinces, which leads to a dramatic increase in the cost of production for both growers and processors. Although tunicate can be applied as the feedstock for the preparation of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), an abundant amount of protein-rich liquid stream is […]

Ce projet de recherche mené avec notre partenaire, l’Association Québécoise pour le Loisir des Personnes Handicapées vise à développer une classification de l’accessibilité de sentiers naturels (urbain) en partant d’indicateurs qualitatifs (motivation, attentes, besoins, satisfaction, équilibre défi-compétence, etc.) et quantitatifs (capacité fonctionnelle, force, endurance, etc.). Le présent projet se structure, d’une part, autour d’une démarche […]

The promise of low-cost fabrication via “wet” processes, such as inkjet printing, in manufacturing flat panel displays and solid-state lighting has long been one of the main motivations behind the pursuit of Organic Light-Emitting Devices (OLEDs). The vast majority of OLEDs in commercial products are still fabricated by costly “dry” vacuum-deposition methods however. A primary […]

The last twenty years have seen whirlwind advancement in production of metallic parts via additive manufacturing (AM). This technology has surpassed its origins in manufacturing titanium parts; additive manufacturing is now applicable to a vast range of alloys, including stainless steels. The principal advantage of constructing parts layer by layer is to afford the capacity […]

Every year, all planes must be deiced prior to airbourne when outside temperatures hit the cold seasons (fall to spring), in order to ensure a safe takeoff. Currently, trends in the deicing industry are still leaning towards having all operation informations logged down on paper slits. This approach is consuming in terms of time, material […]

Le secteur biolimentaire québécois doit faire face à des problématiques de concurrence internationale forte, de manque de relève, de rendements non-optimaux et d’un besoin urgent de réduire son impact environnemental. La littérature scienti-fique met en évidence l’importance d’une transition numérique du secteur, soit l’utilisation des nouvelles technologies, qui permettrait au secteur d’améliorer ou résoudre ces […]