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VIRTUAL EVENT: AI, Smartphones and Lung Health: Breathless with Excitement

14 May 2024, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm

Event poster featuring a smartphone and headshot of John Hurst and Luke Hale

Prof John Hurst and Dr Luke Hale will discuss how smartphone sensors combined with AI can recognise real-time breathing and measure lung function.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Emiliana Di Donna – Faculty of Medical Sciences

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Faculty of Medical SciencesÌýpresents its MayÌýPublic LectureÌýwhich is dedicated toÌýWorld Asthma Day with a talk about AI and lung health care.

There are more than 600 million people in the world living with long-term lung health problems such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We urgently need better ways to diagnose and treat these conditions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform health care and in this lecture, we will consider how AI can improve the care of those living with asthma and COPD.

This talk will demonstrate how data from the sensors on your smartphone, such as the camera and microphone, can be combined with AI to recognise breathing in real-time and measure lung function. We will discuss how these data can be used to make breathing exercises much more enjoyable and interactive, and look at a smartphone platform that is under development for patients with asthma and COPD. We will also briefly touch upon some of the limitations, and potential pitfalls, of using AI in health care.

This lecture will be followed by a Q&A with our speakers Prof John Hurst andÌý Dr Luke Hale.

Follow the conversation on Twitter: #FMSLectures

Accessibility

This event will take place online. AÌýlink to the event will be sent to you prior to the event start time.

Live captioning is available for this event.

We aim to make our events as inclusive as possible.ÌýIf you have any accessibility requirements or enquiries that are not covered in thisÌýprofile, please contact the events team at fms.education@ucl.ac.uk. PleaseÌýallowÌýas much time as possible before the eventÌýto ensure we can make reasonable adjustments.

About the Speakers

Prof John Hurst

Professor of Respiratory Medicine at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº

John Hurst is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, and an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Free Hospital. ÌýHis research aims to find better ways to diagnose people living with long-term lung health problems, both here in the UK and overseas.Ìý

John Hurst

Dr Luke Hale

Surgical trainee & Researcher at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº

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Dr Luke Hale is a surgical trainee and a visiting researcher at the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Division of Medicine. He is an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur and the founder of Pia Health (). He is currently developingÌýLungy (),Ìýa smartphone-based platform for Asthma and COPD.

Luke Hale