Do you know how much urine is in your bladder right now? At first glance, this might seem like an irrelevant question. But for people living with urological challenges, the answer can mean control, dignity, and freedom.
Gloria Edumaba Graham is an MPhil student in Computer Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, and a scholar of the Responsible AI Lab (RAIL). Her research focuses on advancing a noninvasive bladder volume monitoring device originally developed by researchers at ETH Zurich, with the aim of making it practical for use in everyday, ambulatory settings for spinal cord injury patients.
Unlike conventional methods that merely provide a binary indication of bladder status—full or not full—this device offers continuous, real-time estimates of urine volume. Gloria’s current work centres on the critical urination window. Drawing on techniques from Human Activity Recognition (HAR), she is developing methods to isolate and analyse this window, enabling more accurate interpretation of urine volume estimates during the act of urination.
Although a RAIL fellow, Gloria is currently based at ETH Zurich, where she is conducting this groundbreaking research as part of her Master’s thesis with the Spinal Cord Injury and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) group.