AI-powered tool may offer contactless way to detect high blood pressure, diabetes

An artificial intelligence-powered tool under development in Japan uses high-speed video to detect changes in blood flow in a patient's face to screen for high blood pressure and diabetes without the use of blood pressure cuffs, blood tests or wearable devices. Questions remain about the system's efficacy, however. "Assuming people are willing to sit still in a controlled environment and submit to this, why not just put on a blood pressure cuff and draw a little blood in the same amount of time and have an absolute answer?" said Dr. Geoff Rubin, chair of the Department of Medical Imaging in the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

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