IBD
New Innovations in IBD: Dieta Stool Image Recognition
Patients of IBD and their caregivers are well-accustomed to evaluating poop. It’s the messy truth of managing life with IBD. Taking pictures on your phone that others would deem gross is nothing new for us since we have to be able to describe the stool characteristics to doctors. But imagine if that photo could prove medically accurate instead of being based on memory and subjective interpretation. Asaf Kraus, Co-founder and CEO of Dieta Health, has created a phone app that can do just that. It takes the picture of the stool and classifies five objective characteristics (consistency, fragmentation, fuzziness, volume, and Bristol Scale) so that doctors and dieticians can properly prescribe interventions and help patients make better treatment decisions. Kraus is an experienced data scientist and an IBS patient himself. Dieta Health won Honorable Mention in the Lyfebulb &Arena Pharmaceuticals 2021 Innovation Challenge for IBD, proving yet again how motivation can drive great innovation. What do you think? Would you use such an app?
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I love this idea and the grit it took by Asaf to collect thousands of photos of poop to create this library!!!
My very dear friend and I used to have so many chats about poop. There was a chart she found that showed what your poop meant based on color, shape and even smell. I will hunt it down!
Care Partner of Adult
Yes, I've seen that visual chart. It's actually rather helpful. :-)
So helpful!!!