Use AI to help patients with a diminished sense of smell :: Now Smell This

Harvard professor Joanna Aizenberg’s lab just received seed funding, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mass General Brigham healthcare system, to use AI to help patients with a diminished sense of smell. The initial goal is to create a diagnostic test to measure olfactory loss—a marker of Covid-19 and other conditions. Then the team hopes to treat the problem by placing sensor chips in the patient’s olfactory tissue to help preserve or restore scent perception. Patel, who is part of the lab, likens it to “a cochlear implant for the nose.”

— Read more in The E-Nose Knows: AI Learns to Smell at The Wall Street Journal.