June 21st every year is World ALS Day, and today today also happens to be the day of the summer solstice in the lunar calendar. On this occasion, SenseTime cooperated with the Shaanxi Provincial ALS Care and Mutual Aid Association to carry out the "AI Warm and Freeze Care" activi

June 21st every year is World ALS Day , and today today is also the day of the summer solstice in the lunar calendar. On this occasion, SenseTime cooperated with the Shaanxi Provincial ALS Care and Mutual Aid Association to carry out the "AI Warm and Freeze Care" activity in Xi'an, Xingping , Weinan , Yanchuan , etc. The AI intelligent care system has been deployed for public welfare in many local families. As a leading artificial intelligence software company, while leveraging the advantages of AI technology, SenseTime has a deep understanding of the actual needs of patients and their families, and continuously iteratively optimizes technology development and functional design in order to serve more comprehensively. ALS patients.

This spring, SenseTime’s AI smart care system was officially delivered to the first patient with ALS. It uses all-weather AI contactless smart care to bring warmth to patients. It not only received good feedback, but also received widespread attention from the industry. This expanded deployment hopes to allow AI to warm more people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Sun Qigong, project leader of SenseTime AI Intelligent Nursing System and SenseTime Applied Research Laboratory, said: “ALS is a complex disease that will have a serious impact on patients’ quality of life. However, because it is a rare disease, this group has not been affected. Widespread attention. We hope to use this as an opportunity to draw attention to ALS and provide more social care, and encourage more corporate institutions and caring people to join in."

At the same time, Chen Yuheng, co-founder of SenseTime, also said : "The evolution of technology is about improving efficiency on the one hand, and fairness and inclusiveness on the other. The ALS care project is an epitome of SenseTime's efforts to promote AI for good and promote technology for inclusiveness. In the future, we will continue to expand Cooperation with relevant institutions will allow artificial intelligence technology to protect and help more rare patients and disabled people, and use technology to warm more vulnerable people."

is people-oriented and based on objective needs, AI acts as the "intelligent guardian of ALS patients" ”

ALS patients in Weinan, Shaanxi use SenseTime’s AI intelligent care system

ALS is one of the five major terminal diseases listed by the World Health Organization . It will damage people’s motor neurons and subsequently As the disease progresses, patients gradually lose their ability to speak, eat, move and even breathe, which is life-threatening. For ALS care, uninterrupted daily care, dynamic vital sign monitoring, and timely response to various emergencies are both key and difficult.

"Many little things that seem inconspicuous to ordinary people are very urgent needs for patients with ALS. They are in pain, but it is difficult for them to even express their cry for help. In recent years, although society has also provided assistance to people with ALS We must pay attention, but the public still has little understanding of the details of their real lives." Sun Qigong said, "To this end, we visited many patients and saw the dilemma of 'one person is disabled and the whole family is unbalanced', and we hope to understand these patients and their families. The most real demands, and carry out targeted technology development accordingly. We teamed up with the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to conduct technical research on key algorithms, striving to make every application of artificial intelligence technology bring peace of mind and convenience to patients and their families. ."

As a technical solution for the care of ALS patients, the SenseTime AI intelligent care system can provide 24-hour non-contact care for patients with limited mobility, swallowing and breathing difficulties. By innovatively combining AI technology with multispectral imaging sensors, the system can continuously monitor body temperature, heart rate, respiration and other physical signs regardless of lighting conditions, and implement functions such as abnormal alarms and active calls. Through such technical design, SenseTime's AI intelligent nursing system can not only greatly relieve caregivers' mental stress, time, energy and other burdens during the day, but can also work stably at night with the lights turned off, allowing patients and caregivers to sleep peacefully.

Abnormal situation alarm is crucial for every ALS patient, especially for some severe patients who cannot even swallow and cough up sputum normally. If not handled in time, it may easily lead to dangers such as suffocation and . SenseTime's AI intelligent care system can use computer vision technology to keenly capture the pain expression of the person being cared for and alert the police.When a patient has difficulty coughing up sputum, the system can identify abnormal movements and states of the patient's mouth, eyes and other faces, make a comprehensive judgment based on the respiratory rate, and issue an early warning to the accompanying staff as soon as possible.

At the same time, for patients who have lost their ability to move and speak, SenseTime has also specially designed an active call function, which can send out alarm signals through a combination of controllable facial movements and supports customization of movements. For example, the patient can blink continuously or move his eyes and mouth in coordination to send out an active call signal without making a sound or with a fixed posture, eliminating the trouble of being unable to call when there is a temporary need.

In addition, as the disease progresses, caregivers have to check the patient's status every once in a while, assist the patient in coughing up phlegm, patting the back, turning over, etc., without stopping, and it is difficult to leave, which has brought many problems to many families of patients. a heavy burden. To this end, SenseTime has designed and developed remote calling and remote viewing functions. Caregivers can remotely receive abnormal alarms and remotely view patient status and statistical data at any time.

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SenseTime staff simulated testing the AI ​​intelligent care system

Since February this year, SenseTime has worked closely with the Shaanxi Province ALS Care and Mutual Aid Association, Jointly carry out the "AI Warm and Freeze Care" activity for patients with ALS, which not only brings the warmth of AI to patients, but also effectively relieves the pressure on their families. During this period, the SenseTime team maintained close communication with these users, and continued to iteratively optimize algorithms and functional designs based on feedback to create simpler and easier-to-use AI solutions.

Among the ALS patients and caregivers that the SenseTime team has contacted, many are middle-aged and elderly people who are not familiar with smart devices. In order not to let the " digital divide " become an obstacle to them, the SenseTime team tried to simplify the operation difficulty as much as possible from the beginning of the system and equipment design, so that patients and family members can easily get started: in daily use, caregivers mainly only Care should be taken to keep the equipment positioned appropriately so that it can care for the patient at the proper angle and coverage. The SenseTime team embeds location reminders into the device system. When the AI ​​system detects that the care angle and range do not meet the requirements, it will proactively send out relevant alarms to prompt and guide the correct placement to ensure the accuracy of care data.

"Nursing is a job that requires both eyes and heart. With the continuous advancement of AI technology, SenseTime is also constantly exploring solutions to social problems with technology." Chen Yuheng, co-founder of SenseTime, said, "In SenseTime In the process of continuous development and iteration of our product system, we will always continue to promote technological innovation, fulfill social responsibilities, and promote the development of warm artificial intelligence technology."

article/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wen Jing

editor/Fan Hongwei