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A Stretchy AI Skin Patch Spots Deadly Heart Rhythms in Milliseconds
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Summary
- University of Chicago engineers built a stretchable, skin-like patch that runs cardiac AI directly on the body — in about 10 milliseconds, with no server or wireless link.
- Using real mapping data from a donor human heart, it located electrical wavefronts with 99.6% accuracy even when stretched to 150% of its length.
- It also estimated heart-attack risk with 83.5% accuracy while under significant stretch.
- The design targets ventricular fibrillation, an 'electrical storm' that can turn fatal within minutes if not caught in real time.
The question
On-body AI wearables will transform how fatal heart conditions are detected.
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