The Role of Machine Learning in Identification and Dissemination of High-Quality Clinical Research Articles from The Biomedical Literature

McMaster’s Health Information Research Unit has a long-established track record of identifying and sharing the highest quality, clinically relevant medical research to support healthcare professionals in staying up to date with the latest evidence so they can provide the best care to their patients. We have developed and used traditional search filters to help in […]

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Du plan a la mise en muvre : etude exploratoire sur les opportunites et les obstacles a I’implantation de mesures d’apaisement de lacirculation

Plusieurs organismes et entreprises travaillent presentement au Quebec dans la production de plans pour reamenager les rues et encourager les de placements a pied et a velo. La mise en ceuvre de ces plans demeure toutefois difficile dans plusieurs cas. Pourquoi ? Le projet ici propose se penche sur cette question en examinant differentes demarches […]

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Balises acoustiques pour un système de détection d’intrusion par les airs pour des périmètres de sécurité

L’entreprise DARE-IT Technologies fabrique des matrices de microphone IP pour des applications de surveillance. Les centres carcéraux cherchent une solution abordable afin de faire la détection, la localisation, la classification et le suivi de potentielles intrusions dans les airs (par l’usage de drones) pour permettre l’interception de colis illicites. À cette fin, DARE-IT réalisera une […]

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Automatic AI based detection of cranial deformity in infants

Positional plagiocephaly is an increasingly common form of cranial deformity in infants, affecting approximately 40% of infants under the age of 1. While it is not associated with developmental defects or learning impairments, there can be long term aesthetic implications for deformity that is not appropriately addressed early in life. Early identification of plagiocephaly and […]

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An Holistic Approach to Complex UX Design

As the scope of design has become more complex – designers have moved from designing products, to technology, experiences, environments and more recently services. This progression in design, its implications, serves the need for the exploration of more holistic approaches to leverage designers’ understanding of these complex problems. Furthermore it identifies the need for designers […]

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Combating money laundering networks with the firefighting problem

The Firefighter Problem is a deterministic, discrete-time model of the spread of a fire on the nodes of a graph. If a graph is a network where bank accounts are nodes, then an edge between two accounts is a transaction between one bank account and another. Imagine we have a suspicious bank account with suspicious […]

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Soutenir le développement de la recherche collaborative : des milieux académiques vers une pratique professionnelle intégrée et socialement responsable

Les discussions sur les questions identitaires et de justice sociale (Réconciliation avec les Premières Nations, des mouvements comme Black Lives Matter, etc.) sont omniprésentes dans le contexte québécois actuel. En reconnaissant l’importance de ces enjeux, les universités changent aussi leurs pratiques en recherche auprès des sujets humains, mais il faut encore que ces pratiques soient […]

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Evolving a system for effective communication with non-speaking patients in situations of medical emergency I hospital intensive care

Individuals with cerebral palsy generally use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices to help them interact socially. The vocabularies provided in these systems are not specifically helpful in communicating during medical emergency or hospital intensive care. This project involves user-centered design and development of a software module for use in such situations, based on a […]

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Characterizing the effects of suspended sediment on the smoltification of Atlantic salmon in the Restigouche watershed

In recent decades, the number of wild Atlantic Salmon returning to rivers of Eastern Canada has declined to unprecedented lows. One conservation effort by the Gespe’gewaq Mi’gmaq Resource Council (GMRC) was the construction of various sedimentation basins on Little Main Restigouche near Saint Quentin (NB). These basins are designed to prevent potato fields sediment from […]

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Using AI to help first responders assess skin burns

The broad goal of this project is to create and implement a system which is able of assessing and classifying skin burns (and other types of skin lesions/wounds) using different state-of-the-art machine learning models and techniques such as EfficientNets, Reinforcement learning, saliency mappers, CAM, etc… The work that will be completed during this internship will […]

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