HÍREK A NAGYVILÁGBÓL – Millions of people have undiagnosed diabetes – now a smartphone can help

A six-second voice clip is enough for new artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose type 2 diabetes.

The new test, dubbed a ‘potential game changer’, could screen for the disease by just listening to a couple of sentences into your smartphone.

The study, published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, combines voice technology with AI and could help identify millions of undiagnosed people with type 2 diabetes.

It works by using six to 10 seconds of people’s voice, along with basic health data, including age, sex, height, and weight, to create an AI model that can distinguish whether that person has type 2 diabetes.

Researchers asked 267 people diagnosed as either non- or type 2 diabetic to record a phrase into their smartphone six times daily for two weeks.

From more than 18,000 recordings, scientists analysed 14 acoustic features for differences between non-diabetic and type 2 diabetic individuals.

The team looked at a number of vocal features, like changes in pitch and intensity that can’t be perceived by the human ear.

Using signal processing, scientists were able to detect changes in the voice caused by type 2 diabetes, which were different for men and women.

Almost half of the 480 million adults living with diabetes worldwide are unaware they have the condition and nearly 90% of diabetic cases are type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is largely lifestyle-driven, with bad diet and obesity as two of the major factors behind it.

source: Metro