According to a study, our Apple Watch can detect diabetes with 85% accuracy

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In the midst of all this medical revolution generated by Apple around the company's devices, and recent rumors that they are working on a non-invasive glucose monitoring system with the help of the Apple Watch, some researchers are using these wearables to demonstrate that the sensors that mount allow the successful detection of early signs of diabetes.

As part of a comprehensive study, researchers from cardiogram, developer of applications and solutions related to health, and with the help of the University of California, San Francisco, are conducting tests with wearable devices of A and Apple Watch, creating a neural network called Deep heart, which is able to distinguish people with or without diabetes with 85% accuracy and hit.

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The initial study had more than 14.000 registered users and, according to Johnson hsieh, co-founder of cardiogram, a much larger spectrum is still needed to achieve the goal:

'Typical deep learning algorithms are data hungry, require millions of tagged examples, but in medicine, each label represents a human life at riskFor example, a person who recently had a heart attack or experienced an abnormal heart rhythm. To solve this challenge, the researchers applied two learning techniques, using tagged and unlabeled heart rate data to improve accuracy.

Hsieh points out that the correlation between diabetes and the body's autonomic nervous system allows Deep heart detect disease through heart rate readings. Specific, it is possible to intuit when a person is developing diabetes due to the demonstrable variability of the heart rate in the subject.

This study comes in the midst of a revolt that has been brewing in recent months because it appears that Apple is developing non-invasive glucose sensors for its future implementation on Apple devices and, as we know, the whole issue related to health is more and more present in the Cupertino offices.

Brandon ballinger, another of the co-founders of cardiogram, referred to this idea when asked by AppleInsider just a few days ago:

«If Apple includes a glucose monitor in the next Apple Watch, we will be the first developers to test it.. We designed DeepHeart to be multi-tasking (capable of detecting multiple health conditions) and multi-channel (capable of incorporating multiple streams of sensor data) for exactly this reason. "

Although now it hardly seems like a prototype, cardiogram already has a good number of customers and, if Apple manages to meet its deadlines, we could see these types of implementations soon on future Apple devices.


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