Researchers involved in a recent study trained an artificial intelligence (AI) model to diagnose type 2 diabetes in patients after six to 10 seconds of listening to their voice. Canadian medical researchers trained the machine-learning AI to recognise 14 vocal differences in the voice of someone with type 2 diabetes compared to someone without diabetes. […]
This seems like a solution in search of a problem. A finger-prick a1c test is about $30 (probably cheaper in reality, but that’s what they try to bill to insurance at least), and is an extremely accurate way to diagnose both diabetes and pre-diabetes.
I would think Parkinson’s disease or other diagnoses that can have big impacts on speech but don’t have simple tests and require a skilled exam from a neurologist or something would be a better match for this kind of tech.
At 10 cents per polio vaccine, there are still places where administering them is non-negligible because it’s not the cost of the test itself that’s an issue. Granted, this probably isn’t good enough to make a difference, but if you could get tested just with a cell phone with Internet access without needing to physically ship anything not need a medical professional at the site, it probably could make a big difference in some areas. Granted, those are places where getting medical treatment afterwards is probably hard but at least dealing with it via dietary choice, when that luxury is an option, may help.
This seems like a solution in search of a problem. A finger-prick a1c test is about $30 (probably cheaper in reality, but that’s what they try to bill to insurance at least), and is an extremely accurate way to diagnose both diabetes and pre-diabetes.
I would think Parkinson’s disease or other diagnoses that can have big impacts on speech but don’t have simple tests and require a skilled exam from a neurologist or something would be a better match for this kind of tech.
At 10 cents per polio vaccine, there are still places where administering them is non-negligible because it’s not the cost of the test itself that’s an issue. Granted, this probably isn’t good enough to make a difference, but if you could get tested just with a cell phone with Internet access without needing to physically ship anything not need a medical professional at the site, it probably could make a big difference in some areas. Granted, those are places where getting medical treatment afterwards is probably hard but at least dealing with it via dietary choice, when that luxury is an option, may help.