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Among the highlights of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA, is a device to detect cervical cancer, and a bracelet that predicts hot flashes with the help of artificial intelligence.
The list of exhibitors in the 2024 edition included the South Korean company Aidot, which is displaying a device called Surveray AI, which allows uterine cancer to be detected remotely with the help of artificial intelligence.
A World Health Organization report revealed that cervical cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in women. He pointed out that 570,000 new cases of this disease and about 311,000 deaths due to it were recorded in various parts of the world in 2018.
However, the organization confirmed that it is one of the easiest forms of cancer that can be prevented and treated, if it is detected early and treated effectively.
But if the diagnosis is too late, it often leads to death.
AIDot seeks to enable increased early detection tests worldwide thanks to its device based on acetic acid optical testing technology, which is described as “simpler, faster and cheaper” than usual cytological tests, such as a smear.
The result is immediate
The company explained that it is “a visual test conducted by a specialist with the naked eye,” stressing that the result is immediate, while cellular tests require laboratory analyzes that take several days, and perhaps even weeks.
Surveray AI, which was created in collaboration with gynecologists and Anam and Bundang hospitals in South Korea, also features telemedicine.
This solution can be adapted to suit developing countries where medical infrastructure is often in poor condition.
Carolina Milanesi, from the French company Creative Strategies, said that she had seen at the Las Vegas exhibition in recent years a limited increase in innovations related to children’s and women’s health, but 70% of the innovations displayed were related to men.
Jessica Booth, director of marketing research at the company organizing the exhibition, predicted – in a statement to reporters – that “the value of the digital health industry for women will reach $1.2 trillion by the year 2027.”
She believed that “this sector is ripe for the technology industry.”
The American company “Amira Health” is considered one of the leading institutions in this field, and it focuses its research on menopause, which is a stage in a woman’s life that sometimes causes her great discomfort, such as hot flashes.
Hot flashes
The founding team designed the “Terra” system that “predicts hot flashes and prevents them during the night,” thus preventing women from waking up repeatedly in one night.
“Terra” relies on a wristband equipped with sensors, and analyzes biometric data using an artificial intelligence program that determines the body’s natural rhythms and is able to predict the occurrence of hot flashes.
At night, “in the seconds following the detection” of the next hot flash, “a cooling mattress cover is activated that lowers the temperature by several degrees almost immediately,” according to Amira Health, which indicated that these attacks, which are sometimes very frequent and obvious, It becomes shorter and shorter.
The device is expected to be put on the market starting next March, and sold for $525.
