Waterford IT scientists use cancer patients' smartphones for early diagnosis of depression

Scientists in Waterford are leading a research project to help predict depression earlier in cancer patients via their smartphones.

Yahya Almardeny, Gary McManus, Philip O’Brien, and Christine O’Meara, of the FAITH team, of the Telecommunications, Software and Systems Group (TSSG), based in Waterford IT.

Irish scientists are leading a research project to help predict depression earlier in cancer patients, via their smartphones and via trusted medical markers.

The researchers, at TSSG, in Waterford IT, want to improve survivors’ quality of life and treatment aftercare. They are conducting the €5m, EU-funded FAITH project with cancer hospital specialists in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Cyprus.