Doctors in London were able to create an artificial intelligence -reinforced headphone capable of diagnosing heart disease in just 15 seconds, according to a report published by “Guardian”.
The new headphone can discover various heart diseases, from heart failure to heart valve diseases and various pulses, as well as a fast and immediate heart drawing.
The new headphone is developed by researchers in the Imperial College London and the Imperial College Foundation for Health Care of the National Health Services Authority, and it was revealed to thousands of doctors at the annual conference of the European Society for Cardiology in Madrid, which is the largest conference of cardiologists in the world.
The researchers also conducted a study that included 12,000 patients under the supervision of 200 doctors and surgeons in the United Kingdom, and aims to use the new speaker to examine these patients in search of heart disease.
Although most of the complaints of patients were related to public weakness or fatigue, a large part was diagnosed with heart failure compared to similar patients who were not examined using the new headphone.
“It is amazing to use a smartphone for an examination of no more than 15 seconds so that artificial intelligence can discover heart diseases quickly,” says Dr. Patrick Bashgher, of the National Heart and Lung Institute of Ambir London and the Health Care Corporation of the National Health Services Authority in Imperial College.
The device consists of a unit similar to playing leaves, placed on the patient’s chest, and this unit includes the ECG sensor (ECG) that is conducting a heart drawing and microphona that records the sound of blood from the heart.
After that, this information is sent to the cloud company servers where it is analyzed using artificial intelligence to discover simple heart problems that human doctors may not discover.
On the other hand, some experts expressed their concerns about the wrong diagnosis resulting from the use of the headphone, and they added that the use of these headphones should take place directly with patients suspected of heart problems as well as completing the final diagnosis by cardiovascular doctors.