VIENNA: Researchers have reported in a recent study that training an artificial neural network system can detect lung disease in children just by breathing.
Training Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to detect bronchopulmonary dysplasia (a lung disease in premature infants), according to research presented by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in Vienna, Austria. Can be given especially when babies are breathing while sleeping.
The study was presented by a professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel and a research group leader at the University Children’s Hospital, Switzerland.
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a breathing problem that can affect premature babies. It occurs when a newborn’s lungs are underdeveloped at birth.
Such children often need help with a ventilator or oxygen therapy – a treatment that can expand and contract their lungs.
