What if your smartphone could monitor your health in 30 seconds?

AI Health Monitoring Made Simple: Exploring Shen AI’s SDK

Health monitoring is essential to protecting your overall wellness, specifically in detecting health issues, disease prevention and management, and tracking lifestyle changes. Now, imagine if you could monitor health parameters remotely with AI – no need for an in-office doctor’s visit or a traditional medical device.

Let us introduce Shen AI, an AI health monitoring system that does just that. Shen AI delivers clinically validated, contactless health monitoring using just a smartphone camera. It has the ability to track more than 25 health markers with a simple 30-second video, providing health insights that seamlessly integrate into any platform.

How does Shen AI work?

Let’s be clear – Shen AI isn’t just a standalone app. Instead, Shen AI is a software development kit (SDK). This means Shen AI functions as an engine that you can integrate into any application, service, or website with access to a camera.

Shen AI uses your camera to scan your face and, with advanced AI, it extracts physiological vital parameters using computer vision and AI. To do so, it finds the face and builds a three-dimensional mask that tracks the face. From there, Shen AI picks up pulsation signals on the facial skin to generate key health insights from just a video alone.

What exactly can you deduce from this video using Shen AI? Well, it’ll generate over 25 health markers – and there’s more on the way. A simple facial scan lets you see different parameters generated in real-time. Insights range from simple vital signs like blood pressure and heart rate to health indices like stroke and heart failure risk.

With this technology, AI health monitoring has the potential to address several gaps in health monitoring, including:

• Increasing accessibility to health monitoring
• Providing a more affordable option versus physical devices
• Offering a remote solution for scalable healthcare
• Conducting real-time, contactless monitoring

Shen AI’s core technology

Here’s the science behind Shen AI: it uses rPPG technology – and your body’s own intricate vasculature. Underneath the skin are many tiny blood vessels through which blood pumps. As a result, the blood volume in these vessels changes, corresponding to subtle color fluctuations in the skin. Although these fluctuations are invisible to the naked eye, rPPG can detect these changes remotely via a camera.

To ensure that Shen AI works for everyone, the team developed Multi Tonal Sensing Technology. This technology, unique to Shen AI, is an advanced computer vision algorithm that ensures the following:

• Inclusivity for all skin tones. That’s right – Shen AI works for everyone across Fitzpatrick scale 1 through 6 with the same level of accuracy.
• Reliability in different environments. The Multi Tonal Sensing technology has a high tolerance for varied lighting conditions, meaning it doesn’t require bright lights for measurement. Thus, it helps to maintain accuracy across diverse lighting conditions.
• Enhanced accuracy. Multi Tonal Sensing increases measurement precision by as many as four times, even in challenging conditions.
• Global accessibility. It expands camera-based health monitoring to diverse populations worldwide, removing traditional barriers.

Finally, anyone familiar with AI knows that the technology is only as good as the data it learns from. That’s why Shen AI was trained on 50,000 video recordings and 7 million heartbeats, a dataset we ensured was ethnically and geographically diverse. Thus, Shen AI is inclusive of various regions and ethnicities, increasing the accuracy and precision with which we approach medicine and promoting more equitable patient care.

Validated in the clinic

While AI health monitoring certainly works, how does Shen AI measure up to traditional devices in the real world? Well, a clinical study conducted by the Medical University of Wroclaw showed that Shen AI is just as accurate as contact-based devices and ECG when measuring things like heart rate, breathing rate, and HRV.

Additionally, another study by ACHA assessed the accuracy of several rPPG solutions, including Shen AI. Results indicated that Shen AI had greater accuracy in detecting heart rate, systolic, and diastolic blood pressure measurements when compared to its competitors (1). As such, Shen AI has become a leader in the rPPG space with its superior performance in accuracy, inclusivity, and environmental adaptability.

And it doesn’t stop there. Shen AI has already tested the accuracy of its blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) readings in-house but will further investigate its utility in the clinic. A study evaluating Shen AI’s accuracy in blood pressure will undergo clinical validation in 2025.

Easy integration

Now that we understand the technology and potential of Shen AI, let’s talk about integrating it into your systems. Shen AI’s white-label SDK provides a plug-and-play solution for healthcare, insurance, and wellness apps with scalable integration across Android, IOS, desktop, and web systems. Not only that, but integration of Shen AI is simple, likely requiring less than a day’s work to install.

Additionally, as an SDK, Shen AI offers flexible UI customization. Thus, you can adapt colors, layouts, and branding to fit seamlessly within your app. With full availability in 19 languages and more to come, Shen AI offers a smooth, localized experience for users worldwide.

A major concern with AI and data involves security and compliance. Have no fear – Shen AI is ISO27001 compliant, GDPR compliant, and on the way to being compliant with ISO 13485. Additionally, because everything happens on the device, no data ever leaves the device. This differs from other companies that may extract signals from video, send them to a server, and finally return results. With Shen AI, everything happens on the device, either inside a browser or on the smartphone/tablet itself – you can’t really be more secure than that.

As such, Shen AI upholds the highest standards in data security, medical device quality, and privacy, ensuring a safe and compliant AI health monitoring solution.

Wrap up

Shen AI is an SDK that leverages rPPG technology and AI health monitoring to measure several health parameters, including heart rate, blood pressure, and health risks. Generated from a diverse dataset and equipped with Multi Tonal Sensing Technology, Shen AI has the potential to transform healthcare by increasing accessibility and equity for all. You can easily integrate Shen AI into your systems and customize it to your branding – making it the perfect solution for all things health monitoring.