Technology exceeds any type of limit and artificial intelligence (AI) programs have helped accelerate many advances and discoveries in science. A good proof of this is an AI that can detect if you have intestinal diseases while you go to the bathroom.
Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology revealed advances in the detection of intestinal diseases, through supervising people when they go to relieve themselves and just monitoring their symptoms.
According to the report published on the website of Tradethe objective of scientists is to detect diseases such as angerusing an artificial intelligence algorithm that could track outbreaks of digestion-related illnesses before they become a serious problem.
How could intestinal disease be detected with AI?
Study authors propose using AI as a tool for disease detection by recognizing the different types of depositionsthat is, the poop.
The proposal of the authors of this study is to use AI as a tool to detect a possible disease by recognizing the different types of stools.
To achieve correct detection, it is necessary to record patients while they go to the bathroom, a procedure that may seem uncomfortable but can generate positive results.
The first step is put a non-invasive sound recorder for users. Later, these sounds will be transformed into images through a technique known as spectrogram. Thus, artificial intelligence identifies what it hears and associates the sounds with different types of poop. Based on the sound pattern of excretions, the AI will detect if the user has just passed urine, hard stools, or diarrhea.
Curiously, specialists do not rule out that this process could be added to cell phones in the future as an application.