Doctors have succeeded in developing a normal headphone led by artificial intelligence that can detect three heart diseases in 15 seconds.
In 1816, the traditional doctor – which was used to listen to the sounds inside the body – was a vital part of a group of medical tools for more than two centuries.
Now a team has designed a high -tech upgrade with AI capabilities that can diagnose heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms almost immediately.
The new Steel developed by researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS TRUST analyze small heartburn and non -detected human blood flow, and take a fast ECG at the same time.
Details of the hacking, which can enhance the early diagnosis of the three cases, have been provided to thousands of doctors in the European Association for the annual Congress of Congress in Madrid, the largest heart conference in the world.
Early diagnosis is vital to heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms, allowing those who need to monitor life -saving medications sooner, before they are dangerously well.
A study of an experiment in the artificial intelligence headphone, which included about 12,000 patients from 200 surgeries in the UK, viewed those who suffer from symptoms such as shortness of breath or fatigue.
Those who were examined using the new tool were likely to be diagnosed with heart failure, compared to similar patients who were not examined using technology.
Patients were three times more likely to diagnose atrial fibrillation – an abnormal heart rhythm that could increase the risk of stroke. It was likely to be diagnosed almost twice with the heart valve disease, where the heart valves did not properly operate.
“The headphone design has not changed 200 years – so far,” said Dr. Patrick Bishtger, of the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Imperial College in London and the Empire College.
“So it is amazing to use a smart doctor to examine a 15 second -second, and then it can present AI as a result of a test at a speed indicating whether someone suffers from heart failure, atrial fibrillation or heart valve disease.”
The device, which was manufactured by California Eko Health, is the size of the play card. It is placed on the patient’s chest to take the ECG registration for electrical signals from his heart, while the microphone records the blood that flows across the heart.
This information is sent to the cloud – a safe area to store data online – is analyzed by artificial intelligence algorithms that can discover hidden heart problems that a person may miss.
The test result is sent, noting that the patient should be marked as an at risk of one of the three conditions or not, again to the smartphone.
This penetration does not carry an element of danger, with a greater chance to inform people by mistake that they may have one of the conditions when they do not. The researchers emphasized that the stomach is self -intelligence, it should be used for patients with symptoms of suspected heart problems, and not for routine examination in healthy people.
But it can save lives and money by diagnosing people early.
“Most people who suffer from heart failure are diagnosed only when they get to A& E seriously,” said Dr. Mihir Kelchker, also at the Imperial College.
“This experience shows that the headphones that support artificial intelligence can change this-which gives GPS a quick and simple tool to discover problems early, so that patients can get the right treatment sooner.”
“Given a previous diagnosis, people can reach the treatment they need to help live well for a longer period,” said Dr. Sonia Babu Narayan, the clinical director of the British Heart Foundation, who has partially funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Professor Mike Lewis, the scientific director of Nihr, told innovation.