A couple weeks ago, a teacher saved the grandmother of one of her students from a stroke after noticing symptoms over Zoom. In the same vein, a recent Medgadget article discussed a new tool for rapidly diagnosing strokes. The technology, developed by researchers at Penn State and Houston Methodist Hospital, uses a smartphone to record the speech and facial movements of the user. The data is then processed with a machine-learning algorithm to determine whether a stroke likely occurred.
New Smartphone App Diagnoses Strokes
The technology employs a smartphone to detect issues in a patient’s speech and facial movements.
Nov 4, 2020
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