International Conference on Sensing Technology

Machine-learning tool gives doctors a more detailed 3D picture of fetal health MIT CSAIL researchers developed a tool that can model the shape and movements of fetuses in 3D, potentially assisting doctors in finding abnormalities and making diagnoses. Caption:Fetal SMPL was trained on 20,000 MRI volumes to predict the location and size of a fetus and create sculpture-like 3D representations. The approach could enable doctors to precisely measure things like the size of a baby’s head and compare these metrics with healthy fetuses at the same age. Credits:Image: Alex Shipps and Yingcheng Liu/MIT CSAIL For pregnant women, ultrasounds are an informative (and sometimes necessary) procedure. They typically produce two-dimensional black-and-white scans of fetuses that can reveal key insights, including biological sex, approximate size, and abnormalities like heart issues or cleft lip. If your doctor wants a closer look, they may use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which uses magnetic field...

Blockchain Network with Hyperledger Fabric Rapid digitalization of the world and wide access to the Internet cause an immense growth of online participants in all areas of business and life. In contrast to this, keeping track of all the interactions became significantly harder. This is one of the reasons to implement the blockchain approach in order to keep data safe and fresh, while maintaining a record of its history. The regular systems are not transparent, difficult to scale, and introduce a high risk of error. Here is a sample of a regular multi-branch system: Blockchain is a solution that forms a growing list (ledger) of immutable records (blocks) that are linked together to form a chain and propagate securely to participants. The participants are represented as peer nodes within a widely spanned network even across the Globe. This approach allows organizations to come to mutual agreement on a single, distributed source of truth. Every peer contains a copy of the ledger which is...

Giant Radar Antenna Reflector on NASA-ISRO Satellite in Full ‘Bloom’ Spanning 39 feet (12 meters), the drum-shaped antenna reflector on the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite mission from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully unfurled in low Earth orbit. The reflector had been stowed, umbrella-like, until the 30-foot (9-meter) boom that supports it could be deployed and locked in place. The NISAR satellite uses a radar antenna reflector that’s 39 feet (12 meters) in diameter to gather information about Earth’s changing surface. The mission scans nearly all the planet’s land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Launched by ISRO on July 30 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s southeastern coast, NISAR will track the motion of ice sheets and glaciers, the deformation of land due to earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, and changes in forest and wetland ecosystems down to fractions of an inch. It a...

KCTech Boosts Global CMP Solutions KCTech supplies advanced CMP equipment and slurry for global semiconductor giants, working closely with them to meet their unique needs. By Daniel de Bomford, Quentin Lange The semiconductor manufacturing industry continues to progress rapidly, with standards, materials and requirements evolving annually. Industry leaders leverage novel solutions to overcome their challenges. To serve the leading companies, its partners must be both innovative and maintain a deep understanding of client needs, which can only be cultivated through a close relationship. Manufacturers need partners whose systems are optimized for their needs, not just compatible. Founded as a trading company in 1987, KCTech transitioned into manufacturing in 1992 and has become a leading manufacturer of advanced equipment for chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) and CMP slurry materials, for the semiconductor and display industries. The company offers integrated solutions that enhance...

Improved Location Accuracy Enables Hydraulic Modeling A water district in Kentucky increased the locational accuracy of assets in its GIS using mobile mapping so that its engineering team could use the data for hydraulic modeling. GIS also helps the district streamline operations and improve customer service. Warren County Water District (WCWD), based in south central Kentucky, offers water and wastewater services over a 530 square mile area between Nashville and Louisville. Every day, the utility delivers more than 8.1 million gallons of drinking water across 1,194 miles of water lines, while its wastewater system transports 2 million gallons of wastewater across 218 miles of sewer line. In addition to this system, WCWD manages the water systems for Simpson County Water District and Butler County Water System through a joint operations agreement that brings the total length of water main to just over 2,100 miles across 1,200 square miles. Each of the three utilities has a separate bo...

  Weak Signal Extraction  Weak Signal Extraction refers to the process of identifying, isolating, and enhancing faint or hidden signals that are often buried in noise or overshadowed by stronger signals. These signals typically carry valuable information but are difficult to detect due to low intensity, interference, or distortion. Techniques such as signal filtering, adaptive noise cancellation, wavelet transforms, machine learning algorithms, and statistical analysis are commonly applied to extract weak signals from complex datasets. This method plays a crucial role in telecommunications, radar systems, medical imaging, geophysics, remote sensing, neuroscience, and financial forecasting , where early detection of subtle patterns or anomalies can lead to breakthroughs in prediction, diagnosis, and decision-making. 👉 In short, weak signal extraction enables researchers and engineers to capture hidden insights, detect rare events, and improve system reliability in environm...