Now a new AI technology will be able to detect lung disease by listening to the sound of cough. This technology can identify whether a person has lung disease or not by analyzing the sound of cough. This will help in early detection of the disease and the patient will be able to get timely treatment. This technology will be very helpful especially for those people who are not able to go to the doctor at the right time.
Google has developed a new technology that can detect lung diseases by listening to the sound of cough. The name of this technology is HeAR (Health Acoustic Representations). The HeAR AI model can analyze the sound of cough and identify whether a person has a serious disease like TB or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or not. This technology can prove to be very useful in places where people are unable to find a doctor or treatment on time.
Features of HeAR model
HeAR AI has been trained on more than 300 million audio clips and about 100 million cough sounds. Due to this, this model is able to detect lung disease from the sound of cough. This technology can be used by doctors and researchers to detect the disease quickly and easily.
Partnership with Indian company
To further improve this technology, Google has partnered with Salcit Technologies, an Indian healthcare company. Salcit Technologies has created a tool called Swaasa, which assesses lung health by listening to the sound of cough. Now HeAR technology is being added to this tool, which will help in detecting diseases like TB in the early stages.
Helping in the fight against TB
TB is a serious disease that can be cured with timely treatment. But in countries like India, where affordable and easy health services are not available to everyone, it is difficult to detect TB on time. Technologies like Swaasa and HeAR can help solve this problem. These devices can detect the disease quickly and at a low cost, which will help in starting treatment of the patient on time.
Important things
AI technology like HeAR is not only helpful in detecting lung diseases early, but this technology can also become a part of affordable and easy healthcare. This initiative of Google and Salcit Technologies will save the lives of millions of people in India and other countries and they will be able to get better healthcare.
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