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Liew tapped to lead NIH-funded P50 national specialized research center ⟩
October 15, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Community and Partners Research Technology
Five-year, $6.5 million project will leverage data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning to build large rehabilitation research datasets for precision rehabilitation.
By Mike McNulty (Image generated by Adobe Firefly) Sook-Lei Liew is the principal investigator of the newly funded Data Science and Analytics for Precision Rehabilitation (DAPR) Center, a five-year project supported by a $6.5 million P50 grant from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation…
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AI-augmented MRIs may improve post-stroke prognosis ⟩
September 30, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Research Technology
New NIH-funded project uses AI to enhance MRI image resolution to better understand how global brain health impacts long-term stroke recovery.
By Mike McNulty (Adobe Stock) Artificial intelligence is seemingly, suddenly, everywhere. Soon, thanks to a new USC-led study funded by the National Institutes of Health, it will be used to generate synthetic stroke MRI images that are just as accurate and detailed as those produced by the world’s…
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New research shows telehealth occupational therapy is feasible and appropriate for families of high-risk infants back at home after NICU stay ⟩
August 20, 2025
Community and Partners Research Technology
Parents “highly satisfied” with telehealth version of program that initiated occupational therapy an average of six days after NICU discharge.
By Mike McNulty (Adobe Stock illustration) Results of a new study published in OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research show that telehealth occupational therapy (OT) can be a family-centered, timely way of delivering a comprehensive OT program to high-risk infants back home after being…
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Can ChatGPT actually “see” red? New results of Google-funded study are nuanced ⟩
July 8, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Research Technology
AI can accurately generate color associations, but humans use more than just language to understand color.
By Mike McNulty ChatGPT seems to “understand” the metaphor of ‘it was a very pink party’ better than ‘the meeting made him burgundy’ (Adobe Stock illustrations) ChatGPT works by analyzing vast amounts of text, identifying patterns and synthesizing them to generate responses to users’…
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AI could help in the early diagnosis of autism, USC study finds ⟩
December 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Autism Faculty Research Technology
Results indicate an “easy and novel” way to detect autism spectrum disorders, paving the way for tailored therapeutic approaches.
By Leigh Hopper Artificial intelligence, coupled with data from an iPad coloring game, could assist in early diagnosis of autism, a new USC study shows. “These results indicate potential for an easy and novel method for early detection of autism and development coordination disorder,” said…
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International study shows link between brain age and stroke outcomes ⟩
April 7, 2023
A USC-led team of researchers find that brain age, a neuroimaging-based assessment of global brain health, may play a role in post-stroke outcomes and could potentially help identify people at risk for poorer outcomes.
A new study lead by a team of researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC shows that younger “brain age,” a neuroimaging-based assessment of global brain health, is associated with better post-stroke outcomes. The findings could lead to better ways to predict post-stroke outcomes and…
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Mitigating on-the-job stress: Stress mapping with artificial intelligence ⟩
March 29, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Faculty Health and Wellness Research Technology
USC Chan’s Shawn Roll leading interdisciplinary team on $1.1M National Science Foundation grant for managing, mitigating on-the-job stress.
By Mike McNulty for The Explorer Journal 2023 (Illustration by master1305/Adobe Stock) The World Health Organization has called stress the “health epidemic of the 21st century” — and that was before the Covid-19 pandemic. While a highly personalized phenomenon, job-related stress is…
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Study highlights barriers, facilitators to telehealth occupational therapy for autistic children during the pandemic ⟩
January 17, 2023
Autism Community and Partners Pandemic Research Technology
Qualitative research explores perspectives of occupational therapists, clinical administrators and caregivers.
By Mike McNulty Telehealth became an essential way for occupational therapists to work with clients during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, nearly three years after the March 2020 stay-at-home orders, researchers from USC Chan’s Disparity Reduction and Equity in Autism Services (DREAmS) lab published…
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Work-from-home survey reveals pandemic’s impacts upon employees’ physical and mental health, productivity and daily routines ⟩
November 17, 2021
Faculty Health and Wellness Pandemic Research Technology
How to support office workers’ health and wellness, when the “office” can be located anywhere.
By Jamie Wetherbe MA ’04 In the spring of 2020, Associate Professor Shawn Roll and his research collaborators from across USC were two years into developing the next generation of intelligent workstations that can optimize employee productivity in the office. The team has diverse yet complementary…
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A trio of faculty members explore how VR can help combat neurological diseases ⟩
August 4, 2020
Chan in the Media Faculty Health and Wellness Research Technology
USC’s Sook-Lei Liew, Judy Pa and James M. Finley are researching the benefits of virtual reality for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease or stroke.
By Chandrea Miller / USC Today From left, Sook-Lei Liew, James M. Finley and Judy Pa in the USC SMART-VR Center. (Photo courtesy of Sook-Lei Liew) They've been called one of the most junior teams to lead such a high-profile USC collaboration. "I'm not sure if this is good or bad," said Sook-Lei Liew…
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