ah, could artificial intelligence save lives or even replace doctors one day virtual reality and a i are becoming more and more important in health care. but some i'm that unsettling how tech is revolutionizing the medical sector. that's our topic on shift today. ah. anyone who needs an operation would like an experienced surgeon, but doctors also have to practice their craft. luckily, these days tech can help. for example, trainees can practice and extend the reality which combines virtual elements with real environments. and doctors can use virtual reality to safely practice. ria and complex procedures such as the separation of these conjoined twins in brazil. ah, tour and bernardo lima were born conjoined at the head with fused brains. in order

to prepare for surgically separating the twins, doctors made a virtual model of the boys brains and 3 d printed it. for months, surgeons and brazil, and england convened and virtual reality to practice the extremely difficult and complex procedure expert. se digital simulations also have huge potential when it comes to training. at cambridge university in england, working with extended reality means that multiple students can practice treating one digital patient. what simulation allows us to do is to have our students fail in a safe environment and to feel safe to fail. of course, that's not something we want to do with real patience. and so a simulation environment allowing the students to take those next steps in their learning where they haven't increasing the real environments around them. to practice the skills and don't eat when they come to meet real patients. practicing

with holographic patients in a high fidelity simulator means there is no more need for life sized dolls, which are a big cost factor for hospitals providing training for health care professionals. there's many students across the developing world going to deeds and other health care systems where they access to this high fidelity simulator is limited. the advantage of this software is that, yes, you can get yourself immersive into the scenario with the hollands headset. but actually you can even just join with a mobile phone. so mobile phones not have a technology that enables them to per project on the camera. everything that you would see in the lands and so you get a degree of realism not quite as good as with the headset. it's actually pretty good. and according to experts, doctors will in the near future use mix reality goggles in the surgery. for example, to project a 3 d representation of c t r scan results directly on to

a patients body does artificial intelligence, speech, human intelligence? well, for some health risks, this seems to be the case. studies show that a i can recognize certain diseases quicker and more reliably been doctors. because algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data and detect patterns and spot minute changes, which a doctor might miss this that's them sound the alarm early, for example, because of slight changes in the patients voice the earlier the diagnosis, the better the outlook for treatment. that's also true for skin cancer. there are many apps to keep an eye on skin t, no cost as testing one. he's at high risk of developing skin cancer or they've been in his mind light skin and i've had many moles since childhood. of he really even back then i counted over 131 plus 2 people in my family had skin cancer. my little

son hold clips. this app is really practical because you can just squeeze in a jag with the checklist along the app. he's using a skin screener, it was developed by doctors and designed to complement regular checkups by a dermatologist. after installation, there are a few questions and then t look and upload photos of skin changes. he's noticed the app doesn't accept blurry or dark images and it delivers results in seconds. it gives us, the app says it's moderate risk, so i should get this mold checked. but just how reliable is going screener developers say study show that 95 percent of the abs predictions are correct. that's thanks to artificial intelligence. the api i was trained with thousands of images of malignant and benign skin growth. when users upload images, it compares them with this database. telecom smith, it's dr. tania fisher. so she can have a look it up to leaky the see, it's good. the app issued

a warning has eve, but i can say the small is harmless, thought samsara hummel's as has been ups. i'm a fan of act up. they raise awareness i and help us take care of ourselves. often some estimates and finish and toys. this device that scans patient is from head to toe, also works with artificial intelligence. it has one big advantage to find what i might have his 1000 colonel, the know it lets you record moles than revisit them a year or 2 later on to the middle of the system has become so smart that we can practically scan the whole guy. publishing and document 50 moles at once. i'm slack . francisco manifest, and dr. fisher takes a closer look at any skin growth. the southware flags, as it in it had, had, was just getting back. this device has actually surprised me up for the smallest melanoma discovered was 2.6 millimeters. it's been,

i wouldn't have noticed it changing as it grew from just 2.2 to 2.6 millimeters on the line of this. but that in the fact that the growth was in, homogeneous alerted, the apple skidded along the shopping center, we removed it, and it was a very tiny, malignant moles are to this material. that surpassed is what we could have understood and seen with just our eyes and said, i forgot to say fasten, doctors being supported by tech. sounds good to me. but the general rule with a i is garbage in, garbage out. so if your dataset is biased, you can get digital discrimination. for example, insufficient data on black patients will lead to an algorithm being less effective at detecting their skin diseases which can have life threatening consequences or take heart disease. a hard to take in a woman looks different than in a man, so even it was developed to recognize typically male symptoms. this puts women at risk a i developer, therefore carry a lot of responsibility when it comes to medical apps in that area where infant and mother mortality are high. a eyes being used to help provide pregnant women and new

mothers with tailored information. mothers assisted by the virtual midwife sister agnes new and expecting parents have lots of questions in nigeria, the virtual midwife, agnes sends voice and text messages to help mothers through all phases of their pregnancy. even small tips can make a big difference. known pregnancy i usually in asia to show pins all around my body, back pains and light. so i don't know do isn't for the phase, so not on c. i receive a, this is fatness. coal that we shall be sick till i walk in that again, this fan by this time i shall not be spending to mush shall be sitting, fly walking. that city of a lot said go standing on the left. as i said, sitting while walking at the sky,

that's the pains review. using agnes is simple and that's by design. the service was developed for women with little access to medical information and is a literacy friendly. agnes health works on any cell phone using texts and messages that are pre recorded in the various regional languages. the a i algorithm sends them out according to how far along the mother is and her pregnancy and the context she lives in. mothers can also contact sister agnes and chat with the a i bought or be put through to a human midwife. hey, i technology is backed up by humans, right? we are the ones who give the i the power to understand and adapt and land. and with the, with that ability, it's taking the feedback that the women give you to be able to give them, not only public feedback, but also help them train. you train your software to be able to understand women and in means is of your complementary. i learned a study one is supposed to overshadow, overtake another. however,

what the i one does is it gives, has an instant cash. with the help of local authorities and 8 organizations. that team behind agnes wants to accompany 16000000 women through their pregnancies and make use of technology to greatly reduce infant mortality in nigeria. we're so far the numbers published by agnes health look promising with uses showing 4 times less risk of dying by giving birth a new born showing 22 times less risk of dying. the next step, an egless up health ups need our data to work and to keep improving by that means we often disclose a lot about ourselves and our bodies. the ongoing discussion about data abuse with period track apps shows just how risky that can be. host business as a to know when women have mood swings, headaches, or sugar cravings, period tracker, abs collect various types of sensitive health data and might also store location,

age and weight. the ab steve, most of this data to perform their function. but the spanish and g o edgy cars examined 12 popular period tracking ups and found that almost all also collected unnecessary data and passed it on to 3rd parties. information on whether someone is trying to conceive or has gotten pregnant is valuable to the advertising industry. and might also be of interest to law enforcement agencies. at least that's what experts in the united states fear. now that the supreme court has overturned the constitutional right to abortion, terminating a pregnancy as a criminal offense and numerous us states now. so might law enforcement use data from period tracking apps to see who has had an abortion or is that unrealistic? well, just a few months ago, law enforcement in the us state of nebraska already used messages sent on facebook

to investigate a reported abortion. and other research found a u. s. data broker was offering information on smartphone users that connected them to the care provider, planned parenthood. this is an organization that provides abortion advice, and can also carry out the procedure on location. the data being sold by the data broker showed how long a woman had visited a center and where she travelled to prom. no wonder then that experts are warning users to be extra cautious with period tracking apps. so whenever you download an app, make sure to take a close look at the privacy settings and where possible don't allow your data to be shared with 3rd parties, especially in the health apps, because they manage some of the most sensitive data we own. when it comes to diagnosis, many current smartphones can be a powerful tool thanks to their high on cameras and sances, and they can help us keep a closer eye on our own health. nonetheless, we also clearly still needs doctors not least because studies show many people

distrust they, i even if they know it can outperform doctors. what about you? have you ever been treated using a i or how would you feel about it? let us know. i can wait to hear stories, thanks, and she was all, ah, ah ah, ah, is the end of the pandemic in sight? we show what it could look like will return to normal. and we visit those who are finding it difficult to success is

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