MIT researchers are developing AI for tracking sensors inside the body with wireless signals

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science AI Lab (CSAIL) are developing methods for using wireless radio signals to detect sensors inside the human body. The ReMix system could be used to find ingestible microchip implants, a technique its creators hope can someday assist in medical imaging, delivering drugs to specific parts of the body, or tracking the movement of tumors. A study detailing the team's findings is being presented this week at the SIGCOMM international conference in Budapest, Hungary. Initial tests were conducted by placing a microchip inside a fake tumor and then placing that fake tumor into varying forms of animal tissue, like a whole chicken, pork belly, or containers of chicken fat or phantom human tissue. The system was created in collaboration with researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital.