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"... Bowel movements have always been measured subjectively by the Bristol Scale… Until now. Dieta has developed proprietary computer vision technology that turns images of stool into valuable clinical data. ..."
"... People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.
What’s new: The smartphone app Dieta helps patients to keep gastrointestinal illnesses in check by tracking their own behaviors and symptoms. It includes a computer vision model that recognizes medically salient characteristics of excrement as accurately as doctors and better than most patients ..."
From the abstract:
"A novel smartphone application can determine BSS [Bristol Stool Scale] and other visual stool characteristics with high accuracy compared to 2 expert gastroenterologists. Moreover, trained AI was superior to subject self-reporting of BSS. AI assessments could provide more objective outcome measures for stool characterization in gastroenterology."
A Smartphone Application Using Artificial Intelligence Is Superior to Subject Self-Reporting When Assessing Stool Form (no public access)
Credits: The Batch by Andrew Ng
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