The discovery belongs to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
Scientists have taught a smartphone to diagnose diabetes of the second type, such an opportunity appeared thanks to the presence of a camera and a flashlight in the phone. The camera is able to recognize vascular damage caused by diabetes, and the flashlight increases the diagnostic accuracy.
The patient's finger was used for diagnostics; the system analyzed changes in the color of the conic of the finger during and after each heart beat.
Such a diagnostic system is not something radically new, it is already used in smart hours, but it has not yet been used to detect diabetes, writes Nature Medicine, citing work scientists.
Diabetes is seriously harmful to health, but it lasts a long time without special symptoms, which makes diagnosis difficult.In an experiment aimed at determining the accuracy of this method, scientists tested more than 50 thousand. patients. The data collected during this time showed that the algorithm correctly diagnosed 81% of patients with diabetes. The definition of those who were not sick had an accuracy of 92 to 97%.
The accuracy of our algorithm will increase if the smartphone takes into account age, gender, body mass index. But even now, the test performance is comparable to mammography or cytology.
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