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Mohamed Sheta, AiZtech Labs - Contactless Diagnostic Platform | LSI USA '24

AiZtech is a deep tech company applying artificial intelligence to a digital health platform called The iSelfie Test.
Speakers
Mohamed Sheta
Mohamed Sheta
AiZtech Labs

Mohamed Sheta  0:00  
Good morning, everyone. Such a pleasure to be here today. I'm Muhammad shahada, the co founder and CEO of isotek labs, we are a deep tech company in the preventive cardiology space. And today we will be talking about the AI selfie, your AI companion for everyday personalized health. For decades, access to care was all about a symptom, or a signal, or what we call and Ouch, you feel sick, go to the doctor, if you're super sick, go to the emergency room. And as this system has grown and overgrown and outgrown, we cannot keep pace with the demand. So what is the solution? Should we build more emergency rooms? Or should we ask why people are getting care only at the emergency room. Today, humanity is at a different tipping point. We do not behave as we used to be decades ago, we transact our lives, on our phones, anywhere, anytime, is our definition of convenience. Not only that, most of us are now taking active and even sometimes proactive ownership of our health. This is whom we call generation now. Those are the majority of our workforce, more than 57% of the workforce. And there now is what is driving the economy and the whole society. So the current model of access to care cannot be those of the best, we really need to think of new models of care. The AI selfie, your AI companion for every day, personalized health, we are in the business of saving lives and livelihoods from secret killers. And the first secret killer we'll talk about is the number one secret killer in the world. Hypertension, we all know about it, but perhaps not feel what it can do. Only today 50,000 People would be dying from hypertension related cardiovascular mortality. In fact, there is 1.5 billion people diagnosed already with hypertension worldwide. But this look at the US numbers because they are really staggering. 120 million people are diagnosed with hypertension in the US already out of them. 93 are out of control. What was even mind blowing, blowing to me is those at the age of 18 to 44. Their prime productive years 28 million of them are out of control. And majority of them have decided not to take the medication. So their only way is to take lifestyle changes or what we can call hand holding every day. And this is where the AI selfie can be of great help. The eye selfie is your AI companion that can detect, protect and prevent cardiovascular related risk factors. With just a selfie experience, the AI selfie can help you measure your blood pressure, heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygenation from just a selfie experience. And I promise I'm not smoking anything. It is real. And you can even try it yourself. Not only type attention is the first prior priority, our use case we're focusing on. But we're also focusing on another secret killer COVID And I'm sorry, I'd be bringing some inconvenient truth in the coming slides. Why should we matter? What Why should we really care if 95 about a virus if 95% of people who contract the virus survive? At the start of the pandemic? The biggest issue was would you survive the virus? Can you really pass but latest research is showing us the story is absolutely different. We should be more worried about those who survive more than ever. Because one is one in every four people who survive an active infection of COVID-19 they get what's called Long COVID What is long COVID Look at this. It's a multi system in organ damage due to a disruptive inflammatory continuous process that can lead to continuous fatigue, memory loss, brain fog, dementia and others. Today as we speak 30 million people already are disabled due to mental or physical impact of COVID-19 only in the US. And guess what? Every time you get a reinfection of COVID-19, your risk of contracting long COVID goes to 2x. In fact, if you look at this, sorry, if you look at this, the risk of long COVID impacts is going exponentially up as the reinfections happen. So, what's the solution? Make sure that your COVID safe environments, protect yourself. Because if you are safe, we are safe. If every one of us is safe, our families are safe, and the whole society will be going forward. Out of those 30 million people who are mentally and physically disabled 20 million are in the age of 20 to 40. Vi selfie can help in detection of active infection of COVID-19. With only four selfie images, you can get to know if you have an active infection of COVID-19 are not in just five seconds. And this time if you are asked me What are you smoking, I will say science, future great science. This is based on a breakthrough research done on the ocular biomarkers, we discovered that the virus exerts signature manifestations by changing the typography of the outer surface of the eye. And those typography changes can be detectable by a sophisticated AI system. We have built a state of the art frontier AI system that takes four selfie images, isolates the outer surface of the eye imaging, then passes them through layers of prediction throughout a sophisticated convolutional neural networks that ultimately will give you back the results in five seconds. clinical validation studies are already completed. We have done studies in Canada and the US across 14 clinical research sites, including university affiliated sites, if you see some gray hair. This is because of IRB nightmares we've been going through. We built a proprietary dataset of more than 50,000 ai images. And the performance of the AI selfie today is comparable to an antigen living performance. The negative predictive value is more than 90%. So if the AI selfie says you are negative, the probability this is a true negative is more than 90%. We did not stop at the COVID while also exploring other emerging pathogens like flu, a flu B, and RSV. The first step was a recent study where the eye selfie was run on 625 People who visit the emergency room room with symptoms and as you know, with Gen dot one, the the symptoms of COVID-19 now are more like flu, right? You ask people they will say you know what, I've got this flu thing, right? So those people who got the symptoms the I selfie managed to classify most of them as true negative. And when they have done the multiplex PCR, the results came that they are covered negative, but in the same time they are flu a positive or flu be positive or RSV positive, which means that it could even differentiate between the topography changes the signature manifestations of COVID-19 versus other respiratory pathogens, and we are continuing to explore that further.


We are crazy enough to believe that we are on a mission to impact 1 billion lives. We are a team of mission driven people with solid experience and deep deep tech AI computer vision, clinical research, innovation and commercialization. Sheehan but also privileged to be advised by some of the world class advisory boards from Mayo Clinic, University of Miami University of


Toronto. Google Health and even privacy and data protection. Save a life. Join our mission today. Take an AI selfie. And make sure that you say because if you are safe, we are safe. Thank you


 

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