Oncoelectronics: A spark in the fight against brain tumors

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Electric fields to curb cancer? That's the bold approach of the Franco-International team at Oncoelectronics. Born in the heart of Provence, the start-up draws on the experience of scientists at Mines Saint-Etienne to design implantable devices to slow the progression of incurable brain tumors. A project at the crossroads of bioengineering, neurotechnology and microelectronics.

Alexandra Vallet is taking the brain’s pulse

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The fluid around our brain moves with our body’s pulses. Studies of this dynamic are offering new insights into the underlying mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. Researcher at Mines Saint-Étienne, Alexandra Vallet’s work is based on this cross-disciplinary approach. It focuses on how our brain’s mechanical properties and fluid-structure interactions influence its health and aging.

The Cybaile Chair, securing AI tools for healthcare

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Thanks to AI tools, it is now possible to identify signs of disease in medical images in a robust and secure way. However, developing such tools requires access to large volumes of sensitive health data. How can we protect this data, and the tools that use it? These are the questions that Cybaile, the industrial chair in cybersecurity, AI and trust in healthcare, is trying to answer.

Stéphane Avril: When biomedical research crosses paths with entrepreneurship

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Stéphane Avril, Biomechanics professor at Mines Saint-Etienne, is exploring the route of entrepreneurship to take his research work to the next level. In co-founding PrediSurge in 2017 and then KaomX in 2024, he has been creating start-ups to take innovations from the laboratory into the economic sphere. Between technology, filing patents and improving technology readiness, let’s take a look back over his achievements as a researcher-entrepreneur.
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The invisible electronic chip that restores the sense of touch

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It could soon be possible to restore tactile sensations for people fitted with prosthetics thanks to the Flexeo project. This research program, led by Mines Saint-Etienne, has entered the second phase after four years of development. Under the supervision of Sylvain Blayac, the team has designed a flexible electronic chip that can detect and reproduce tactile sensations.
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Cancer: technology lends a listening ear to parents of children with cancer

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How can technology and social media in particular help and support parents of children with cancer? This is the subject of a project led by Institut Mines-Télécom Business School and funded by the French National Cancer Institute. Anne-Laure Delaunay, a researcher in digital transformation and emerging technologies for management, initiated the project and gives us an inside look.
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CEREBRO: towards complete non-invasive imaging of brain activity

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The aim of the European CEREBRO project is to create the first electrical contrast medium to provide complete non-invasive images of the brain. Current methods for imaging brain activity using electroencephalography are limited in terms of spatial resolution, and do not cover the whole brain. The product to be developed by CEREBRO is designed to overcome these limitations. IMT Atlantique researchers Adrien Merlini and François Rousseau reveal the details of this project.

StressID, a multimodal database for detecting stress

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StressID is a multimodal database for identifying stress. The project represents one of the largest collections of audio, video and physiological expressions of stress collected from numerous participants. It aims to provide an experimental protocol that is simple to reproduce. Maria Zuluaga, a researcher in the Data Science department at EURECOM, and her PhD student Hava Chaptoukaev tell us all about StressID.

Mental disorders: when data helps save lives

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For several years now, a team from IMT Atlantique has been working in cooperation with doctors from Brest University Hospital and a psychologist from Fondation Bon Sauveur in Bégard to improve early detection of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and to reduce suicidal relapses. The success of this approach based on digital tools lies in the robustness of the analysis and decision models the scientists have developed. It is also dependent on the quality of the health data, which must be correctly recorded by hospital staff.

The cruel dilemma of health data in the ai era: privacy or equity?

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Federated learning is a way to collaboratively train artificial intelligence models. It thus represents a possible solution to AI biases, often caused by training said models on samples that lack diversity. In the healthcare sector, these biases can lead to problems of equity between patients. The EQUIHid project explores how federated learning can help develop more equitable healthcare services.