Every second counts when it comes to detecting and treating heart attacks. That is where a new technology from the University of Mississippi enters to identify heart attacks faster and more precise than traditional methods.
In a study published in intelligent systems, blockchain and communication technologies, the assistant professor of electrical engineering Kasem Khalil shows that a new technology developed in his laboratory could improve the methods of detection of heart attack without sacrificing precision.
“For this problem, a few minutes or even a few additional seconds will give this person the attention they need before it gets worse,” Khalil said. “Compared to traditional methods, our technology is up to twice faster, although it is still very precise.
“Our goal was not just to increase performance to classify heart attacks. We are also focusing on the design. If we want to make this device a usable machine for anyone, that means it has to be something light and economical.”
In the United States, someone dies of a heart attack every 40 seconds. Heart disease, a collection of underlying conditions that can lead to heart attack, is the main cause of death in the United States.
Khalil and his team used artificial intelligence and advanced mathematics to design a chip that can analyze electrocardiograms, known as ECG, graphics of the electrical signals of the heart, and detect a real -time heart attack.
The resulting technology is light and efficient enough to be integrated into portable devices, while it remains 92.4% precise, higher than many current methods.
“We wanted to be able to implement this in a real way,” said Tamador Mohaidat, a doctoral student at the Khalil Laboratory and co -author of the publication. “This is a portable hardware that can be on portable or monitoring devices.
“This method will save lives because we can monitor the heart in real time.”
Mohaidat, from Irbid, Jordan, focused on creating the artificial neuronal network, while Maryland Rahat Kader Khan focused on building the software for the device. Khan, a graduate student of Second Year Computer Engineering from Dhaka, Bangladesh, said the Khalil laboratory is unique in the sense that it focuses on all aspects of the technology they expect to create.
“Some laboratories only focus on the software part, and do not think about the hardware that is needed,” Khan said. “But in our laboratory, we focus on the entire product. Each of us has a responsibility, but we work together.
“This is how we optimize the whole system, by focusing on general architecture.”
Current heart attack detection methods should often occur in a medical center. A patient who experiences chest pain or suspects that he is having a heart attack must first go through an electrocardiogram or blood analysis to diagnose his condition.
All that takes time that a patient could not have, the researchers said. If a portable device such as a clock or a phone can reduce diagnostic time, patients could receive a faster treatment.
“When a patient has a heart attack, the sooner they can treat them, the less probabilities she has to have permanent damage,” Khalil said. “There is a great element sensitive to heart attacks.”
While Khalil and his team continue to develop technology, he said he sees other medical care applications for these devices.
“We want to be able to predict or identify many problems using technology like this,” he said. “Whether heart attacks or seizures or dementia. The detection of a disease or condition depends on the disease itself, but we are working to find faster and faster ways to do so.”
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