{"633610":{"#nid":"633610","#data":{"type":"news","title":"App Detects Harsh Side Effect of Breast Cancer Treatment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome 20 percent of breast cancer survivors will suffer from lymphedema, a potentially severe side effect of treatment that makes arms swell with lymph. The disease is often overlooked, but commercially available app-based technology now makes early detection easier, allowing for proactive treatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe lymphedema monitoring technology originated through research at the Georgia Institute of Technology and was further developed for market by the company LymphaTech, which also emerged from Georgia Tech. Now,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ptj\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ptj\/pzz175\/5733067?searchresult=1\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea new study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has benchmarked the technology, finding that it effectively detects early arm swelling associated with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/breast-cancer\/ss\/slideshow-lymphedema\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Elymphedema\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in breast cancer patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe detection technology is intended to improve not only patients\u0026rsquo; physical health but also their peace of mind and finances.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESevere depression\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The most immediate awful consequence of lymphedema is seen in mental health. Severe depression is very high,\u0026rdquo; said Brandon Dixon, who co-led the study and is an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/llbb.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eassociate professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;If you detect it early, managing it could cost as little as $2,500 in a patient\u0026rsquo;s lifetime. If you catch it too late, the costs can rise as high as $200,000.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Lymphedema is under-researched, so we don\u0026rsquo;t know directly how it may lead to deadly health conditions, but there are more cases than AIDS, Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease, and Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s disease combined, and it diminishes patients\u0026rsquo; health,\u0026rdquo; Dixon said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers published the detector\u0026rsquo;s test results\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ptj\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ptj\/pzz175\/5733067?searchresult=1\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ein the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPhysical Therapy\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;in February\u0026nbsp;2019\u003C\/a\u003E. Dixon and Georgia Tech graduates founded LymphaTech through the initiative\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/tiger\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETI:GER, Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Scheller College of Business. The startup received early funding from the Georgia Research Alliance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENo cure\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELymphedema can strike breast cancer survivors if surgery includes the removal of a lymph node, slowing the flow of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lymph\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Elymph\u003C\/a\u003E. The liquid waste can congest the arm, at first subtly but later so drastically that patients may no longer fit into their clothing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It makes the stigma of cancer stick out,\u0026rdquo; Dixon said. \u0026ldquo;And it is a very underappreciated disorder in medical treatment, so patients can feel stuck with it with no way out.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA German device called a perometer accurately detects arm swelling caused by lymphedema, but perometers are seldom available in the U.S. The research team could find only one in metropolitan Atlanta to benchmark the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lymphatechnology.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELymphaTech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;system against. It was located at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/myturningpoint.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation\u003C\/a\u003E, a non-profit center that co-led the new study in collaboration with Dixon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe advantages of the new technology over\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pero-system.de\/en\/funktionsprinzip-von-perometern\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eperometers\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;are cost and convenience. Perimeters are bulky, costly machines, while the LymphaTech system runs on iPhone or iPad and requires only a $400 camera attachment and a paid smartphone app. Both perometers and the app technology\u0026nbsp;simply determine total volume of the arm for swelling diagnosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new app system performed comparably in its accuracy to the perometer in the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Csup\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E[Ready for graduate school?\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu\/apply-now\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHere\u0026#39;s how to apply to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/a\u003E]\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAwareness barriers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloping LymphaTech has faced a more challenging component \u0026ndash; spreading lymphedema awareness \u0026ndash; and a less challenging component \u0026ndash; arriving at the technology to make the app measurements work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the past 20 years, depth-sensor cameras have become significantly cheaper and better. Video games, self-driving cars, robotics \u0026ndash; they have all required better depth sensors, and we took advantage of that by using a commercially available lens attachment,\u0026rdquo; Dixon said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe camera attachment creates point clouds, 3D representations of objects, in this case of human arms, which the app uses to calculate the total arm volume. Usually, only one arm is afflicted with lymphedema, allowing clinicians to compare it with the unaffected arm for easier gauging of disease severity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs with perometers, the LymphaTech technology avoids human error that creeps in when recording arm volume with a tape measure, a currently common method to assess lymphedema.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The real battle has been to convince a medical market that has not much cared about lymphedema in the past or sought solutions to care,\u0026rdquo; Dixon said. \u0026ldquo;Hopefully, the high accessibility of our solution will make it easier to care.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a separate study involving the LymphaTech system, a research team traveled to Sri Lanka to measure lymphedema in legs, Dixon said. And in Germany, the technology is catching on with medical garment manufacturers to help them custom-fit compression sleeves to treat lymphedema.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlso read: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/632029\/flickering-light-mobilizes-brain-chemistry-may-fight-alzheimers\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EExperimental flickering light device to treat Alzheimer\u0026#39;s triggers special brain chemistry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHere\u0026#39;s how to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/subscribe\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esubscribe to our free science and technology\u0026nbsp;newsletter\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThese researchers and clinicians co-authored the study: Jill Binkley and Lauren Bober from TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation, and LymphaTech\u0026rsquo;s Michael Weiler and Nathan Frank, both of whom graduated from Georgia Tech. Paul Stratford from McMaster University also co-authored the study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDisclosures: B. Dixon owns equity in LymphaTech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eand may benefit financially from the technology. J.B. Dixon is\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eaffiliated with LymphaTech Inc and serves as a scientific advisor.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology has licensed to LymphaTech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003Etechnology that is related to this study and that is covered by patent applications for which J.B. Dixon is an inventor. In addition,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJ.B. Dixon is eligible to receive royalties under the license\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eagreement for LymphaTech.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis content is a public domain news release and may also be republished without charge.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;Media Representative\u003C\/strong\u003E: Ben Brumfield (404-272-2780), email:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMany breast cancer survivors suffer from lymph collection known as lymphedema. It causes arms to swell, and sufferers often become severely depressed. 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And he\u0026rsquo;s coming to a music venue near you.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut he\u0026rsquo;s not like any performer you\u0026rsquo;ve ever seen. He\u0026rsquo;s not even human.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/linktr.ee\/shimontherobot\u0022\u003EShimon, the marimba-playing robot\u003C\/a\u003E, has learned some new skills: He sings, he dances a little, he writes lyrics, he can even compose some melodies. Now he\u0026rsquo;s taking them on the road in a concert tour to support \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1A8PV4DcPEL1vsecaSgPu8?si=eChY5IiXRAKXFInWub1XVw\u0022\u003Ea new album\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; just like any other musician.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new album will have eight to 10 songs Shimon wrote with his creator, Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\/node\/31\u0022\u003EProfessor Gil Weinberg\u003C\/a\u003E. It will drop on Spotify later this spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shimon has been reborn as a singer-songwriter,\u0026rdquo; Weinberg said. \u0026ldquo;Now we collaborate between humans and robots to make songs together.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1A8PV4DcPEL1vsecaSgPu8?si=eChY5IiXRAKXFInWub1XVw\u0022\u003EListen to Shimon\u0026#39;s first single, \u0026quot;Into Your Mind\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeinberg will start with a theme \u0026mdash; say, space \u0026mdash; and Shimon will write lyrics around the theme. Weinberg puts them together and composes melodies to fit them. Shimon can also generate some melodies for Weinberg to use as he puts together a song. Then, with a band of human musicians, Shimon will play the songs and sing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I always wanted to write songs, but I just can\u0026rsquo;t write lyrics. I\u0026#39;m a jazz player,\u0026rdquo; Weinberg said. \u0026ldquo;This is the first time that I actually wrote a song, because I had inspiration: I had Shimon writing lyrics for me.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeinberg and his students have trained Shimon on datasets of 50,000 lyrics from jazz, prog rock, and hip-hop. Then Shimon uses deep learning, a class of machine learning algorithms, to generate his own words.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are lots of systems that use deep learning, but lyrics are different,\u0026rdquo; said Richard Savery, a third-year Ph.D. student who has been working with Shimon over the past year on his songwriting. \u0026ldquo;The way semantic meaning moves through lyrics is different. Also, rhyme and rhythm are obviously super important for lyrics, but that isn\u0026#39;t as present in other text generators. So, we use deep learning to generate lyrics, but it\u0026#39;s also combined with semantic knowledge.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESavery offered this example of how it might work: \u0026ldquo;You\u0026#39;ll get a word like \u0026lsquo;storm,\u0026rsquo; and then it\u0026#39;ll generate a whole bunch of related words, like \u0026lsquo;rain.\u0026rsquo; It creates a loop of generating lots of material, deciding what\u0026#39;s good, and then generating more based on that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Shimon sings these songs, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1A8PV4DcPEL1vsecaSgPu8?si=eChY5IiXRAKXFInWub1XVw\u0022\u003Ehe really does sing\u003C\/a\u003E, with a unique voice created by collaborators at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. They used machine learning to develop the voice and trained it on hundreds of songs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with his new skills \u0026mdash; all developed in Weinberg\u0026rsquo;s lab \u0026mdash; Shimon has some new hardware, too, that changes how he plays and moves on stage. To be clear, he\u0026rsquo;s still mostly stationary, but he has a mouth, new eyebrows, and new head movements designed to help convey emotion and interact with his bandmates. He also has new \u0026ldquo;hands,\u0026rdquo; that have totally changed how he plays the marimba.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Shimon plays much faster \u0026mdash; about 25 to 30 hertz at the maximum \u0026mdash; and also much more expressively, playing from a soft dynamic range to a strong dynamic range,\u0026rdquo; said Ph.D. student Ning Yang, who designed all-new motors and hardware for Shimon. \u0026ldquo;That also allows [Shimon] to do choreography during the music being played.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example, Shimon can count in at the beginning of songs to cue the band, and sometimes he\u0026rsquo;ll wave his mallets around in time to the music. New brushless DC motors mean he has a much greater range of motion and control of that motion. Yang accomplished that by bringing his engineering knowledge and musical background together to create human-inspired gestures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s actually a very, very good example at Georgia Tech that we can actually combine tech and arts together to create something that\u0026#39;s brand new,\u0026rdquo; Yang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe worked closely with fellow Ph.D. student Lisa Zahray, who created a new suite of gestures for the robot \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;including how he uses those new eyebrows.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have to think about his role at each time during the song and what he should be doing,\u0026rdquo; Zahray said. \u0026ldquo;We also want to make sure he\u0026#39;s interacting with the other musicians around him to give that feel that he\u0026#39;s performing with people.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat partnership with people is key for Weinberg. Teaching Shimon new skills isn\u0026rsquo;t about replacing musicians, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We will need musicians, and there will be more musicians that will be able to do more and new music because robots will help them, will generate ideas, will help them broaden the way they think about music and play music,\u0026rdquo; Weinberg said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShimon, Weinberg, and the entire band are building a touring schedule now with the goal of taking their unique blend of robot- and human-created music to more people. Weinberg said he hopes those shows will prove to be more than a novelty act.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think we have reached a level where I expect the audience to just enjoy the music for music\u0026rsquo;s sake,\u0026rdquo; Weinberg said. \u0026ldquo;This is music that humans, by themselves, wouldn\u0026#39;t have written. 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