Cutting-edge innovations in technology, specifically in machine learning and computer vision, are enabling computers to read the emotions and sentiments of an audience, identify faces in a crowd, and even detect life-threatening diseases on ultrasounds. InterKnowlogy, a custom app development company, and its partner company VSBLTY are ACT | The App Association members that are taking full advantage of these life-changing technologies to use the power and precision of machine learning to help doctors save lives.
Based in Carlsbad, California, InterKnowlogy is leveraging machine learning and computer vision to help doctors and healthcare providers around the world. A video released and highlighted at Microsoft’s annual Inspire conference shows how InterKnowlogy is developing software solutions that use the Custom Vision API of Microsoft Cognitive Services to classify and consequently identify objects and anomalies to detect life-threatening abnormalities in humans. Though it is in its early stages of development, these technologies will help doctors diagnose serious and/or rare health conditions in patients of all ages and gestational development, with greater speed, efficiency, accuracy, and at lower cost.
The possibilities for custom vision software is as expansive as the plethora of diseases it can identify in medical scans. As the video showcases, InterKnowlogy’s software could be used to identify the presence of posterior urethral valve disorder, or PUV, a fatal condition that affects one in 8,000 newborn boys. Though many doctors and caregivers are trained to detect the presence of PUV in an ultrasound image, its rare nature makes it easy to overlook. If the disorder goes undetected, there is a 2 percent survival rate. InterKnowlogy developed a solution that uses computer vision through machine learning to analyze data from ultrasound images of male fetuses with the PUV disorder to help identify and diagnose the PUV disorder in future patients.
Software that identifies abnormalities on an ultrasound, x-ray, MRI, or even at a molecular level holds incredible promise for patients, caregivers, and researchers across the country to ensure the detection and treatment of life-changing or fatal conditions. This cutting-edge technology also holds special promise for rural communities that face challenges in receiving access to healthcare. Using telehealth solutions and programs that can detect early stages of illness would provide communities without immediate access to hospitals with the ability to receive more targeted, efficient treatment.
Nearly 23.4 million Americans in rural parts of the country do not have access to broadband, and miss out on opportunities to use innovations like InterKnowlogy’s to help diagnose patients and save their lives. As rural broadband deployment and solutions like television white spaces become more prevalent, we look forward to companies like InterKnowlogy being able to use their products in every corner of the country to prevent detectable illnesses like PUV, and help more Americans lead healthier lives.
To learn more about InterKnowlogy, please visit www.InterKnowlogy.com.
To learn more about VSBLTY, please visit: www.VSBLTY.net