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highway Google AI can detect tuberculosis based on a patient’s cough
Tuberculosis or TB is a treatable diseasehighway, but millions of cases go undiagnosed. Consequently, Google harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to help detect this illness.
It created the Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR) to help researchers build AI models that can flag early signs of disease.
India-based respiratory healthcare firm Salcit Technologies used this technology to create Swaasa. It’s an AI that examines cough sounds to assess lung health.
Article continues after this advertisement How does the tuberculosis detector work?In March 2024, Google published a study on the Cornell University website discussing its HeAR artificial intelligence. The company says they trained this foundational model on 300 million audio recordings.
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The Health Acoustic Representations model suits a wide range of tasks and functions on various microphones. As a result, it demonstrates a superior ability to capture meaningful patterns in health-related acoustic data.
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Article continues after this advertisementGoogle made this health analysis AI available to researchers so that they could develop similar tools more efficiently.
Article continues after this advertisementOne of these researchers was Salcit Technologies, which built the Swaasa AI program. It uses artificial intelligence to detect sounds related to tuberculosis to facilitate diagnoses.
Swaasa lets more people access lung healthcare by reducing costs and the need for specialized equipment.
Article continues after this advertisement“Every missed case of tuberculosis is a tragedy; every late diagnosis, a heartbreak,” said Sujay Kakarmarth, a product manager at Google Research working on HeAR.
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“Acoustic biomarkers offer the potential to rewrite this narrative. I am deeply grateful for the role HeAR can play in this transformative journey.”
Google reports that The StopTB Partnership, a UN-hosted org aimed at ending tuberculosis by 2030, supports this technology. Its digital health specialist, Zhi Zhen Qin, shared this statement:
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“Solutions like HeAR will enable AI-powered acoustic analysis to break new ground in tuberculosis screening and detectionhighway, offering a potentially low-impact, accessible tool to those who need it most.”
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