Real-world use cases 0f AI in healthcare are spreading like flu! Totally wrong idiom in this case since Google has partnered with tech giant has partnered with researchers to create HeAR — an AI-driven application that can analyze your cough and help identify tuberculosis, a devastating bacterial infection that can lie dormant for years.
The immune system captures the germs in what is known as the primary infection stage. Theoretically, a user could cough into their phone and receive potential diagnoses, courtesy of AI. That is the goal of Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), a model trained on 300 million sound clips. The “cough model,” in particular, was trained on roughly 100 million cough sounds.
HeAR learns to identify patterns within audio data, laying the grounds for further analysis.
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Source: The SUN, UK
