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It’s very easy to get caught up in health monitoring. I’m sure anyone who owns a smartwatch that can measure health markers has experienced this, at least temporarily. If you’re not careful, you’ll check every half hour to see whether your pulse is still OK, how stressed you are, whether you’re breathing healthily and what the oxygen level in your blood is. I’m like that too, so I stopped by the NuraLogix booth at the CES tech show in Las Vegas where they claimed they could tell how healthy I was from a 30-second video.
The NuraLogix application called Anura basically uses the patterns of blood flow under the skin to determine, among other things, how high my heart rate is, how stressed I am, and what my chances are of, for example, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease or high blood pressure pressure, high cholesterol, hypertriglyceridemia, the development of heart disease, heart attack and stroke, how stressed I am, what my body mass index (BMI) is and even what my waist-to-height ratio is, what much is a better indicator of overweight than BMI.
After analysis, the application tells us the likelihood of developing various diseases in the next decade based on what the artificial intelligence and imaging technology has analyzed about us. It shows virtually everything a health-conscious person might care about about themselves, all in a half-minute video.
The technology is called blood pressure measurement using transdermal optical imaging technology, also known as remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which is a little more complicated and, according to research, can be used quite well for blood pressure measurement, for example, although it is not yet certain whether the result is within the diagnostic error limits remains. The skin on the face is so transparent under the influence of enough light that a better camera and artificial intelligence can detect blood flow in the underlying vessels, record the patterns and quickly analyze them for a general health check.
NuraLogix lists a number of relevant studies on its website, the conclusion seems to be pretty much the same for all of them: the measurement isn’t bad, it’s pretty accurate, but it’s not at a medical level, so it’s worth looking into that too Selfie measurements. According to NuraLogix, the method measures data points with an accuracy of around 92-99 percent.
In practice, it works a little differently: I tried the app twice on two different days and there were pretty stark differences between the two.
According to NuraLogix, makeup can alter results, but I wore foundation both days, so that probably wasn’t the mistake.
For example, it turned out for the first time that I am practically healthy and have nothing to fear: according to the system, my general health score is 88, which is considered very good, and my basic values as well as my physiological, mental, physical and risk scores is developing well. According to the algorithm, my stress levels were also low, which I highly doubted on the second day of CES, and it is also quite strange that as an insulin-resistant person, it classified me as being at low risk for type 2 diabetes, yielding a result of merely four percent. In addition, the HBA1C value (hemoglobin A1c), which indicates the body’s carbohydrate metabolism and the risk of diabetes, is right on the border between healthy and pre-diabetes, so it is even possible that it measures really well, but my insulin resistance has increased recently relaxed since the examination.
The second time, both my HBA1C value and my stress level worsened significantly, although, for example, I felt significantly less stressed than the day before. My BMI and estimated age also increased significantly: the latter was 26 on the first day and 36 the next day (my actual age, on the other hand, is 34). However, I consider the results of my first day to be more meaningful for my peace of mind.
According to NuraLogix, regular measurements give us a realistic picture of health status, but the measurements can also be influenced by the lighting conditions in which they are taken and, of course, how well we are feeling both mentally and physically. After registration, the application creates a detailed trend report on the various measurements.
It is important to note that according to NuraLogix, their application does not store the video or the photos taken from it, and the analysis data is also encrypted. So far, the product has not yet received a green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which the company expects this year, but it already has 17 patents in the US related to the technology. It is also worth mentioning that this is not the only such application on the market, but it is certainly promising that clinical research is also used for development and the accuracy of the measurements has been tested in the laboratories of Nuralogix and collaborating universities.
One should probably keep in mind the same thing with this technology as with all other similar health measurement solutions, such as: B. Fitness watches: It is very useful as a curiosity and for monitoring your own health, but you should not expect diagnostic accuracy from it.
Our employee is taking part in the CES at the invitation and expense of Vasco Electronics.
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