SenseTime Frostbite Intelligent Care System Warms "Frozen" with AI

Zhongxin Jingwei March 16, 2016 When spring is getting stronger and there are more and more sports and leisure figures outdoors, there are still a group of special patients in the gradual freezing cold. They are the people with the rare disease "frostbite".

"The ice bucket operation has 'poured' warm hearts, and it has also aroused more people's attention to people with frostbite. As an industry-leading AI technology company, SenseTime also pays attention to the needs of such rare patients. Dr. Sun Qigong, head of SenseTime's Applied Research Laboratory, said, "Just this spring, the SenseTime AI Alzheimer's intelligent care system independently developed by our team was officially delivered to the first patient, and the feedback was good." We are very happy, and we will continue to work hard to bring warmth to more people with alzheimer's disease with original AI technology." ”

Frozen patients are guarded by SenseTime's AI intelligent care system

Alzheimer's disease, scientific name amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), this disease can damage motor neurons, and as the disease progresses, the patient's body is frozen like a little bit, gradually losing the ability to speak, move and so on. Just normal breathing, swallowing and coughing up phlegm is difficult for patients with severe frostbite. When left unattended, patients are highly likely to die due to inability to cough up sputum and call for help normally. To this end, uninterrupted care and timely response to needs have become the key to the care of alzheimer's disease - the patient's family needs to check the patient's breathing condition every once in a while, day and night, to ensure that the patient is in a normal state.

SenseTime's AI Intelligent Care System is a new technical solution for the care of patients with frostbite, which can provide 24-hour contactless care for patients with limited mobility, difficulty swallowing and breathing. While monitoring the patient's physiological indicators in real time, it also has the functions of abnormal situation alarm, active call, sleep analysis and abnormal situation statistics, and at the same time meets the needs of remote care of accompanying personnel.

Dr. Sun Qigong said: "We launched this project last fall, with the support of the company's multi-departmental collaboration, as well as the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Xidian-SenseTime Intelligent Health Joint Innovation Lab, after half a year of development, many visits, and repeated iterations of the algorithm, testing equipment performance, optimizing user experience in the coldest time, and delivering the first user this spring." The first trial patient and his family are already using the system in practice. Through the actual experience and adjustment in the early stage, the patient's feedback is currently very good. And that gives us a lot of confidence. ”

"No one dares to say that there is true empathy, but we hope to understand the heavy physical, psychological, and family challenges that the disease poses to the patient himself." Ma Kun, co-founder and executive director of Technology of SenseTime, said: "At present, we have reached a cooperation intention with the Shaanxi Provincial Frosty Mutual Aid and Care Association to jointly carry out the "AI Warm 'Frozen' Care" activity for patients with Frostbite, so that artificial intelligence technology can protect and help more rare patients. ”

7 * 24 hours with AI protection, sleep with peace of mind, get up in time

For the love of the guardian, there is a gentle gaze, but also can have a day and night AI system. Based on computer vision technology, SenseTime's AI intelligent care system can keenly capture the painful expression of the caretaker and alarm, and promptly notify the escort to deal with the critical situation within 3 seconds to avoid the life danger of the caretaker. At the same time, the system can also issue alarms when signs such as body temperature, breathing, and heart rate are abnormal. In particular, when the caregiver develops apnea, the intelligent care system will send an emergency signal to notify the caregiver.

The system uses a multispectral imaging sensor, which is not affected by light conditions and supports 24-hour uninterrupted operation. On the one hand, real-time and uninterrupted monitoring of the physiological indicators of the caretaker, at the same time, the use of computer vision analysis technology, continuous monitoring of the caregiver's wake/sleep status, statistics of the caregiver's sleep duration and number of awakenings and other information, and generate sleep quality analysis report, and push the report to the escort to view.

Non-invasive, non-contact monitoring and interaction, health and dignity are equally important

Traditional medical devices usually monitor physiological indicators by pasting electrodes, etc. However, seriously ill patients often stay in bed for a long time, muscle atrophy, malnutrition, skin moisture is not high, easy to lead to low resistance to monitoring, signal capture is not accurate, at the same time, long-term wear may cause sore allergies and other uncomfortable reactions. In addition, although the frostbite patients are imprisoned by the disease, their minds are still awake, and their desire for normal life and communication has not diminished - the great physicist Hawking still socializes, speaks, and talks about the universe in a wheelchair.

To this end, SenseTime's AI intelligent care system fully adopts non-invasive, non-contact physiological indicator monitoring. Without the need for the caregiver to wear other auxiliary tools, only the use of multi-spectral imaging sensors can be used in the absence of contact, by collecting physiological information such as the temperature radiation intensity of the watched body, the degree of chest cavity ups and downs, etc., to quickly and accurately identify the physiological indicators such as the body temperature, breathing rate and heart rate of the caregiver, compared with the common contact monitoring method, the non-contact monitoring method does not bring any annoyance to the caregiver, and avoids inaccurate monitoring due to skin allergies caused by contact, or malnutrition.

In addition, SenseTime's AI intelligent care system can provide contactless active call function for patients who have lost language and mobility, and through a series of predefined action logic, it can also help patients complete active calls without making a sound and with a fixed posture. For example, based on the keen recognition of AI technology, patients can send out active call signals through mouth, eyes, or expression movements.

Remote wireless viewing, AI at your fingertips

Just like parents worry about their children and couples think about their lovers, even if they are in a different place for a moment, love and concern have never stopped. SenseTime's AI intelligent care system is equipped with a dedicated display terminal, which can remotely view the status of the caretaker at any time, anywhere and in real time, and receive abnormal alarms. The system monitors and continuously synchronizes the value of the patient's physiological indicators in real time, marks abnormal conditions, and generates a statistical analysis report of physiological indicators for the escort to view and timely understand the physiological state of the caregiver.

"While continuously promoting the application of AI technology in the medical and health fields, SenseTime focuses on developing technical solutions for the care of patients with frostbite," Ma kun said. In the future, we also hope to use AI technology to guard and take care of more vulnerable groups, and AI is good. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)