(ANSA) – MILAN, JUN 29 – Researchers at the University of San Diego, California, have created an app capable of detecting diseases such as Alzheimer’s using the camera of a Pixel 4 to examine a patient’s pupil. It is the latest way smartphone cameras have proven to be effective in diagnosing many diseases.
Last year, Google showed, at the I / O 2021 developer conference, a software capable of recognizing skin problems simply by photographing parts of the body to be analyzed using Artificial Intelligence. Led by Professor Edward Wang, San Diego researchers explain in an interview with The Verge that the eyes are a metric for detecting Alzheimer’s, and in particular the pupil.
A recording of the response to specific tasks allows you to analyze, even through an app, cognitive disorders based on the way in which the pupil reacts to certain commands.
A common Pixel 4, currently surpassed by the Pixel 5 and Pixel 6 hardware, can support search thanks to cameras equipped with infrared rays used by Google for facial unlocking. As the researchers state, infrared technology is better at detecting the difference between eye color and pupil than a standard sensor, which studies the spectrum of visible light. The type of measurement, which does not provide an immediate result, may represent a first screening approach to patients at risk of Alzheimer’s, reducing the cost of laboratory tests that require more time and machinery by tens of thousands of dollars. (HANDLE).
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