Nuralogix's AI app Anura can detect health

NuraLogix, a company that specialises in medical technology, recently introduced its leading health and wellness app, Anura, which takes a 30-second video selfie and uses the information to compile a library of readings about you, TechCrunch reported.

The app is able to identify vital signs like heart rate and blood pressure, mental health-related diagnostics like stress and depression levels, physical characteristics like body mass index and skin age, your level of risk for conditions like hypertension, stroke, and heart disease, and biomarkers like blood sugar levels.

Chief Medical Officer of NuraLogix, Dr Keith Thompson, while talking to CNN about the app, said: "We're using a novel form of remote photoplasmography. We call it 'Transdermal Optical Imaging,' and it's measuring the pulse wave and blood flow and multiple regions within the face.

The AI analyses a 30-second video image of a user's face to reveal blood flow information which is then matched with diagnostics from traditional measuring tools and uploaded to the DeepAffex Affective AI engine The Anura app provides valuable insights into a person's physical and mental health and Nuralogix declared in January that the accuracy of their contactless blood pressure readings had improved, namely to an accuracy equating to a standard deviation of error of less than 8 mmHg.

Moreover, Anura's growth is part of a larger trend in medicine and wellness, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and increased awareness of regular monitoring for health prevention.