Meet Maya Trutschl, the 18-year-old Louisiana student who built a $130 system that detects bedsores before they form in ICU patients using machine learning and thermal cameras; wins a $25,000 scholarship
At an age when most teenagers might have their minds on crushes, fashion or the latest album releases, Shreveport resident Maya Trutschl was thinking about a problem in hospital ICUs: how to stop bedsores before they appear.In the ICU, patients lie motionless for hours. Their skin may show no signs of damage. But beneath the…