Researchers have invented an artificial intelligence doctor who can help doctors discover 3 heart health problems in just 15 seconds, including early detection of heart failure.
The study was conducted by researchers from Imperial College in the United Kingdom, and its results were presented at the annual conference of the European Society for Cardiology in Madrid, Spain last August 29, and the American journal Newsweek wrote about it.
The study indicates that the technology -supported version can provide much more than the traditional doctor’s headset that was invented in 1816, which was limited to listening to the internal sounds of the body, as it can analyze the slight differences in the heartbeat and the blood flow that cannot be monitored by relying on the sense of hearing, and making a quick electrical heart planning at the same time.
Dr. Sonia Babu Narayan, clinical director at the British Heart Foundation and Cardiology Consultant from the United Kingdom, said in a statement that this version “is a wonderful innovation in which the simple doctor’s headphone that was invented more than 200 years ago was developed to keep pace with the requirements of the 21st century”.
Dr. Patrick Bashgher, from the imperial hospital from the United Kingdom, expressed his admiration for the doctor’s smartphone to conduct an examination of its duration not exceeding 15 seconds, and then show quick results using artificial intelligence, indicating whether the person has heart failure, which is the decline in the heart’s ability to pump the blood to the various organs of the body, or suffer from atrial fibrillation, a condition that affects the heart and causes an irregularity Heart valves, which is a condition in which one or more valve does not work properly, and this may affect blood flow and increase the pressure on the heart.
The team that designed this innovation, in a report in which Newsweek, participated, stressed the role of the doctor in identifying patients who can benefit from examining the smart doctor, so his evaluation and clinical examination of the suspected symptoms is still very important.
Early diagnosis of heart disease
The study was conducted on people with symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling under the legs and/or feet. It included more than 200 medical clinics, and this technique drew more than 12,000 patients.
The results showed that the people who performed the examination using a smart doctor’s headphone was the probability of diagnosing the heart failure two times higher compared to those who did not check, and the possibility of diagnosing atrial fibrillation was 3.5 times higher, which could increase the risk of a stroke. The possibility of diagnosing heart valves was almost two times higher.
The developed headphone is used by placing the device on the patient’s chest to make electrical heart planning to record the electrical signals coming from the heart, while the microphone connected to it records the sound of blood flow across the heart.
In the next step, this information is safely sending to the storage area to analyze it with the programmed artificial intelligence algorithms based on healthy data for tens of thousands of people, through which the accurate problems that can affect the heart and diseases that the doctor may overlook.
After that, it is sent as a result of the test, which is shown if the patient is subject to the risk of heart failure or not, directly to the smartphone.
A separate algorithm can discover the presence of atrial fibrillation, which is often not accompanied by symptoms but can contribute to the occurrence of some strokes and can be treated using blood -blooded drugs.
Smart headphone, but it may make mistakes
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in the world, as it leads to a life of about 17.9 million people annually.
4 out of 5 deaths caused by cardiovascular disease are due to heart attacks and strokes, and a third of these deaths occur early in people under the age of 70 years.
“Most patients with heart failure are late when they go to the emergency department while they are in a dangerous condition,” said Dr. Mihir Kelchker of the imperial hospital from the United Kingdom.
This experiment shows that artificial intelligence -backed doctor headphones can change this situation, providing doctors a quick and simple tool to discover problems and cases of infection early, enabling patients to obtain appropriate treatment as soon as possible.
On the other hand, the researchers in the study indicated that 70% of the clinics that were provided with smart medical headsets have stopped using it, or used them irregularly, after 12 months have passed.
They also warned of the need to make efforts to better integrate this technology into the procedures and tests that doctors are currently conducting to publish it on a broader scale.
The study also showed that two -thirds of people who were suspected of heart failure when diagnosed with a smartphone and after being subjected to an additional blood test or an additional heart examination they were not actually had.
The researchers acknowledged that this could cause anxiety and conducting unnecessary tests in some people, but that the use of the smartphone can reveal the signs of heart failure in other patients, which may have been overlooked and will not be diagnosed without that, and the time required for their referrals and direct treatment was not available.
Dr. Kelchker stated that the accuracy of the results provided by artificial intelligence “will increase much more, because it uses and analyzes the doctor’s smartphone tests for each patient.”