Thanks to innovative lung models, testing new medication on animals could soon be ancient history.
Human lungs are usually examined by X-ray or ultrasound scans. But now a Canadian startup is working on a modern, mobile solution.
Around 120,000 ultrasound clips were analysed, with 270,000 individual images extracted, each annotated with details on healthy and sick tissue and with unnecessary info removed.
The data was used to train AI and create an app. Soon, therefore, doctors could check a patient’s lung function at home using a mobile ultrasound device.
Goodbye radiation exposure. Regulatory approval is forthcoming with the technology primed for use in other fields.
AI is just as helpful when it comes to examining the intestinal tract.
