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’Smart Toilet’ Uses Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Bowel Health

posted by mrpg on Monday June 07 2021, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-second-that dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:

'Smart Toilet' Uses Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Bowel Health:

DURHAM, N.C. -- An artificial intelligence tool being developed by Duke scientists can be added to the standard toilet to help analyze patients' stool and give gastroenterologists the information they need to provide appropriate treatment for chronic issues such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

The work is being done by Duke University's Center for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Infectious Disease (WaSH-AID), and was presented Saturday at the virtual conference Digestive Disease Week 2021.

"Typically, gastroenterologists have to rely on patient self-reported information about their stool to help determine the cause of their gastrointestinal health issues, which can be very unreliable," said Deborah Fisher, MD, associate professor of medicine at Duke University and one of the lead authors on the study.

[...] The prototype has promising feasibility, but it is not yet available to the public. Researchers are developing additional features of the technology to include stool specimen sampling for biochemical marker analysis that will provide highly specific disease data to meet the needs of patients and gastroenterologists.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday June 07 2021, @01:48PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday June 07 2021, @01:48PM (#1142731) Journal

    It could possibly be great for use in a hospital. What it's more likely to be used for is people's weird fetishes and/or insurance. When I say insurance, it sure isn't going to be for the end-users' benefit.

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  • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Monday June 07 2021, @02:25PM (1 child)

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 07 2021, @02:25PM (#1142742)

    "Please enter your username." Frantically clicking... "Unknown user or access code, please try again." "Come on, I really need to go now!" "Unknown username."

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 08 2021, @08:29AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @08:29AM (#1143062) Journal

      You mean the toilet doesn't have biometric identification of your butt?

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