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00:00:17take, we'll put electrodes on, yes, how
00:00:21is modern cutting-edge science done? The most
00:00:24accurate answer to this question is to try it out yourself, everyone knows.
00:00:28järele proovida, kõik teab.
00:00:34At the Institute, in these laboratories,
00:00:36the smartest solutions are being developed on how to use
00:00:40smart devices and the data
00:00:42contained in them in medicine. We are testing one such today.
00:00:45The purpose of this study is
00:00:49to validate these smartwatches and
00:00:52three parameters: pulse frequency,
00:00:56number of steps, and energy expenditure. How accurately these watches measure these.
00:01:00parameters, do I understand correctly that you suspect that these
00:01:04watches are inaccurate? No, we don't suspect they are inaccurate, we
00:01:07actually want to know how accurate they are. Smartwatch manufacturers
00:01:11are very different and we are not quite sure how
00:01:14reliable one or another watch is,
00:01:18so here we take watches from different companies,
00:01:21we put
00:01:24them on the test subject, on their arm, and then
00:01:28either within a couple of hours or...
00:01:30or in some cases within 24 hours, we collect
00:01:33the data that comes
00:01:37from the watch and then compare it with our so-called
00:01:40gold standard, i.e., steps taken on a treadmill and heart rate
00:01:44measured by ECG. Wires
00:01:47attached, oxygen mask on, and we begin
00:01:51the scientific experiment. So, do you feel
00:01:53normal? As much as one can feel
00:01:57normal in this situation, yes. Following
00:02:00the instructions of Institute researcher Kristjan Pilt and his colleagues, I perform
00:02:04routine activities, I walk, I run,
00:02:07I lie down, I ride a bike, I solve
00:02:10puzzles,
00:02:12mhm, so that was a three-year-old's, yeah,
00:02:16yeah, yeah,
00:02:18mhm, and I even clean, and we have
00:02:22here on the floor a bit of
00:02:25paper from a paper shredder, which needs to be swept up with a broom,
00:02:29and then if... once you've swept it up with a broom, then you have to sweep it apart again
00:02:32and then sweep it together again. This is indeed
00:02:35such a fruitless task, but the important thing is the process you're
00:02:39doing, so it took two minutes again, okay. At the same
00:02:42time, the smartwatch records various data
00:02:46about my health.
00:02:48What is the bigger goal of this? Why are you
00:02:52doing this? The bigger goal would be that
00:02:55people, who daily wear their
00:02:59pulse. so already collect health data
00:03:02about themselves, that they would be able to
00:03:05transmit it to the health portal,
00:03:08and if they then, for example, go to a family doctor or
00:03:12to an occupational health doctor, then these
00:03:15doctors would already be able to foresee what the
00:03:19dynamics in these parameters have been,
00:03:22and these doctors would not then have to
00:03:25send these people for initial examinations, but in fact, the examination would already have been performed by these
00:03:29people themselves. One could say the philosophical
00:03:31background
00:03:34in the medical sector or healthcare sector is very similar
00:03:38to other service sectors, and
00:03:40if we think back twenty years ago, that
00:03:44when I went to the shop and asked from behind the counter, "Give
00:03:47me that bag of sugar and that pack of
00:03:50butter," then that time is irreversibly gone. Today, I'm
00:03:54on an airplane, I've had to buy the tickets myself, I
00:03:58have to check in my own luggage... No one helps
00:04:01me anymore, and the same trend
00:04:04is in healthcare, that we have to give
00:04:07people more tasks to deal with their
00:04:10own health. Professor Peeter Ross explains that in the
00:04:14future, our smartwatches will be connected to Estonia's national
00:04:17health information system. If this succeeds, it will save
00:04:20a huge amount of resources. We can
00:04:24collect data now
00:04:26in the smart age, not once a day and not
00:04:30once an hour, but practically once
00:04:32a second, which means that we
00:04:36get a broad
00:04:38and comprehensive overview
00:04:42of a person's health, and we can also
00:04:46get this data throughout their life, and not only when
00:04:49I go to the
00:04:53doctor, who has a white coat on, and my
00:04:56blood pressure is already rising and my blood pressure is already rising. The point
00:05:00is that if currently repeated specialist visits burden
00:05:03the medical system, then in the future
00:05:07some appointments could be canceled and instead, people would monitor
00:05:11themselves at home. themselves, or rather, the smartwatch
00:05:15would do it for them. This way, doctors' valuable
00:05:18working time can be saved, and in total, millions
00:05:21of euros. Do you mean that this very smartwatch on
00:05:25my wrist, that this device will diagnose me
00:05:28in the future and tell me when I should go to the
00:05:32doctor? I would be very cautious with the word
00:05:35"diagnose," but it will give advice. It will certainly give
00:05:38advice. Well, I think a lot of
00:05:42it already gives advice, that if by the end of the day
00:05:46you've only taken 500 steps, then you should go out
00:05:50for a walk, and that is the simplest
00:05:53example. But what we do with these
00:05:57studies is we look at these daily patterns,
00:06:00how the pulse quickens, how much a person walks at different times during the day,
00:06:04and based on that, over a relatively
00:06:07longer period of time, we hope
00:06:11to be able to predict when... when a person's health
00:06:14starts to deteriorate, not specifically to diagnose, but
00:06:18then, if activity decreases,
00:06:21for some reason the pulse quickens in unusual situations,
00:06:25then there would be advice through the
00:06:29smartphone, through an avatar, that you should go
00:06:33see a family nurse or an occupational health doctor, or
00:06:36such prevention is the goal.
00:06:39What diseases the smartwatch literally
00:06:42detected in such a way in the early stages in practice in the future?
00:06:46What is the challenge of our society
00:06:50is obesity and lack of movement,
00:06:54and from this non-communicable
00:06:58diseases arise,
00:07:01which are a great burden both for individuals and society, namely cardiovascular
00:07:05diseases, diabetes, various mental health disorders,
00:07:09so the range is very wide, just like I..."
00:07:12"have been tested today by more than 80
00:07:15test subjects. Although a larger analysis is still ahead, major
00:07:19and minor deviations have already been identified, where
00:07:22makes a mistake and for example
00:07:25miscalculates the amount of energy expended, but other
00:07:29things have also emerged during the studies, yes, we had various
00:07:33things happen here, that for some
00:07:37subjects we detected arrhythmias from the ECG signal and we
00:07:40advised them to contact..." their family doctor so that they could
00:07:44get advice and see a cardiologist and
00:07:48see what was wrong with their heart
00:07:51function, and some subjects also
00:07:54left some activities unfinished which were simply a little
00:07:58too overwhelming for them, that there's nothing to do, our goal was
00:08:02not to complete the performance, so to speak, but to still monitor
00:08:06your body and stop at the moment when
00:08:09your feeling tells you to.
00:08:29Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology show how
00:08:33many hard drives worth of information are needed to conduct
00:08:36one modern scientific study. Tartu
00:08:39University researchers, led by bioinformatics associate
00:08:42professor Kaur Alasoo, are mapping, with the help of data from more than half
00:08:46a million people, how genes affect our
00:08:49metabolic processes. Our main interest is
00:08:53how we can generally develop better,
00:08:56faster, and more effective medicines. What is the current problem?
00:09:00Why does drug development often fail? Firstly, it's because
00:09:03pharmaceutical companies are very good at making these small molecules, but then they go
00:09:07into clinical trials, and it turns out that the molecule works well, but the protein was
00:09:10wrong, meaning the target. The drug's target that we want to influence was wrong,
00:09:14and that's why it doesn't work, for example. Or the other problem is
00:09:18that it might work, but it has many other
00:09:21side effects, it's not safe. Often
00:09:25it is believed that every gene in our body performs only one specific
00:09:28task. Alasoo and his colleagues' study, however, proved
00:09:32that one gene can simultaneously affect hundreds of compounds and
00:09:35molecules. In practice,
00:09:38this means that if you try to suppress only one indicator with a drug at a time,
00:09:42the person may still not get well. What do you
00:09:46do then? We try to find these
00:09:49so-called targets within cells, to find targets that
00:09:52can be targeted with drugs. A human cell is like a Lego house, which
00:09:55consists of blocks, the blocks are so-called proteins, and then
00:09:59different blocks have different functions, that is, some are made like
00:10:02walls, some might correspond to then some are made into windows,
00:10:06doors, a roof, and so on. For example, if we want to make it so that there is more
00:10:10light in the house, that if our problem is... that the disease is that it's too dark
00:10:14in the room, then how to get more light, then we would try
00:10:17to find which proteins we should influence so that there is more
00:10:21light, if we think about that house, no matter which block we remove,
00:10:25then as a result there is more light in the house, and there is most light when we
00:10:29only remove the roof, then there is a tremendous amount of
00:10:32light, but now rain comes in, for example, yes, so
00:10:36that is precisely the problem, isn't it, that we get a side effect, that there is a lot
00:10:39of light, but rain comes in and it's cold too, that is,
00:10:43maybe medicating, it's not such a good idea to target
00:10:46the roof. Tartu researchers studied the genetic
00:10:49data of more than 600,000 people
00:10:53based on information from the Estonian Gene Bank and the UK
00:10:56Biobank, and compiled, figuratively speaking, the necessary
00:11:00instructions for assembling a Lego house, which helps
00:11:03to distinguish the true causes of diseases from accompanying
00:11:06symptoms. Where does artificial intelligence come into play? We
00:11:09actually would like
00:11:12to have an artificial intelligence model that could
00:11:16predict for us what
00:11:19a specific genetic variant
00:11:22does, if we change it. I don't know, on the first
00:11:25chromosome, position 1 million 321 to a
00:11:29C, firstly, if anything happens at all, and if
00:11:32it does, what happens, that is,
00:11:36we would like the model to be able to predict this for us, not that we have to do an experiment and measure
00:11:40every time we want to know it. Firstly, the model predicts, and secondly, the model can also
00:11:44tell us why it predicts, meaning the model basically explains
00:11:47biology to us. What help is this to an ordinary person?
00:11:50How does this help me if we have such good
00:11:54models? We can, as a whole society, develop
00:11:58medicines more quickly and efficiently,
00:12:01and then with that, either treat or
00:12:04prevent various diseases. On the one hand, it helps to make drug development
00:12:08significantly faster, cheaper and more efficient. On the other
00:12:12hand, it would create an opportunity to focus on new diseases,
00:12:15the development of drugs for which has not previously been considered
00:12:19reasonable for economic reasons. For example, rare diseases, or especially
00:12:22rare diseases, where drug development
00:12:25starts from the actual needs of each patient,
00:12:28we need to find that needle in the haystack, how to find that one change among
00:12:32the three billion. In reality, the difference between two people is a million, we have to find
00:12:36the one that causes the disease, and that is where, if we have very good
00:12:40models that can predict what each
00:12:43genetic difference does, then it is significantly easier to find
00:12:46these variants, and then we can also think about what the therapy could
00:12:50be.
00:12:53In fact, in the Estonian medical system, there are several
00:12:56areas where artificial intelligence has already gained
00:12:59a foothold. In Estonia's largest North Estonian
00:13:02Regional Hospital, intelligent machines work together with doctors
00:13:06on a daily basis. It
00:13:09is warm at first, don't be scared, you can close your
00:13:11eyes, it's more comfortable. We'll close
00:13:15the clips and I'll make breathing free immediately.
00:13:19Mhm. Okay, I'll come closer with my fingers.
00:13:21ligi.
00:13:26One place where artificial intelligence assists doctors
00:13:29is radiation therapy. The artificial intelligence tool precisely
00:13:33marks the contours on the image, i.e., where the disease is located and where
00:13:36the healthy organs are. This way,
00:13:40doctors can direct the treatment to the right place and better
00:13:44protect healthy body parts.
00:13:47Here you can see, well, I think there are a couple of hundred
00:13:51contours here, which are all
00:13:55structured. Of course, not everything is always needed, it depends on where
00:13:59the tumor is located. So in that area,
00:14:02it is already known what the risk organs are, then
00:14:05the radiologist technician must contour them before
00:14:08the doctor starts contouring
00:14:11the tumor volume. He has already done that work, yes, he has
00:14:15done that work. How fast is it? It takes a few minutes, so
00:14:19not long. For example, here there are 380
00:14:23layers, so it's... layers taken from the body in axial
00:14:27sections. Here you can also see them in other planes, here
00:14:30these layers are in the coronal
00:14:34plane. Simply put, if it's the prostate area, then we need to
00:14:38contour the rectum,
00:14:41the sigmoid colon, then we need to do
00:14:44the femoral heads, the bladder,
00:14:47and sometimes also the bowel bag, that is, the area that includes all the bowels,
00:14:51like basically here, you know. So
00:14:54everything that is in the human body can be
00:14:56contoured.
00:14:59How big is the role of this artificial intelligence in your work today,
00:15:03that it is basically a full-time
00:15:06assistant for you. Yes, it is daily, that
00:15:09basically all patients who come to us for a
00:15:13CT scan, who come to us for treatment, we use
00:15:16AI for all of them, so it's a standard that we
00:15:20take these AI contours and we
00:15:22then correct those contours. according to what we
00:15:26need, if it has done something a little wrong somewhere, then we correct
00:15:30it, we cannot leave
00:15:33it so that we don't check a single contour, we still check all contours
00:15:36in the relevant area. How much does AI make mistakes,
00:15:40how much does it give results that are not true? I can't
00:15:44really say numerically,
00:15:47but as for contours, there are contours that I
00:15:51practically don't have to correct, but there
00:15:53are contours that I have to correct a lot, or then do
00:15:57them myself from start to finish, perhaps, because it might be more convenient and faster for me
00:16:01to do it myself than if AI has done it. It
00:16:04all depends on the patient's anatomy. If
00:16:08the anatomy is unusual, for example, if the patient has been operated on,
00:16:12then the anatomy has already changed due to that, and
00:16:15AI may not
00:16:17detect it as well.
00:16:19Have you measured how great the effect of this artificial intelligence
00:16:23is, how much time you save or how much human work you save
00:16:27with it? I can confidently say that it saves at least
00:16:30about 50% of time on
00:16:33the contouring part. Generally, I can say that once...
00:16:38if the images, i.e., the CT scans, are taken with a very thin layer,
00:16:41then it could take three to four hours
00:16:45to correct or contour all the images
00:16:48of one patient, now I think we can
00:16:52do it with AI in about an hour, so that's a very
00:16:55big time saving,
00:16:58wow, that's still quite a lot, basically you can see four patients
00:17:02instead of one, yes,
00:17:03basically.
00:17:07Moving from radiation therapy to the radiology center, where
00:17:11artificial intelligence literally saves lives. If we now
00:17:14imagine that we have a patient who is developing
00:17:18a cerebral infarction, then
00:17:21their brain must be treated as quickly as possible to save
00:17:25as much brain as possible. So we are talking about minutes, basically? Well, the
00:17:28faster, the better, so Estonia has a very good
00:17:31ambulance service that brings patients to the hospital very quickly, and
00:17:35then all this process that we are talking about
00:17:39now, until the patient
00:17:41receives treatment, can take less than an
00:17:44hour, well, in an ideal situation,
00:17:47right? Which means that the patient comes to our hospital, a neurologist
00:17:51examines them and decides that they need a study, then they
00:17:55come to us for the study, then the study is done, which looks exactly like what is on
00:17:59the screen, that is, such a
00:18:02boring black and white image for the ordinary eye, but
00:18:05a radiologist sees a lot here. Where
00:18:08AI now comes to help is that it helps the human
00:18:12eye to make this thing
00:18:15perhaps easier to follow, meaning if we look at this colored
00:18:19image, then
00:18:22the computer tells us to
00:18:25look here, it makes it red for us, basically,
00:18:28it clearly indicates, it clearly says
00:18:31that the blood flow to the brain has decreased, so this is the place where
00:18:35an infarction starts to form. And then what else we do
00:18:39is such an angiography, meaning we inject
00:18:42a contrast agent into the patient which starts circulating in their blood vessels,
00:18:46and if there is a clot in the blood vessel somewhere, which is
00:18:50the cause of this infarction, then it is also able to
00:18:53mark that place for us, meaning we can quickly
00:18:57tell the neurologist, "There is a blockage in this
00:19:01cerebral artery. Due to this blockage
00:19:03of the artery, the patient has suffered
00:19:06a cerebral infarction. Such and such an amount of the brain
00:19:10is damaged, such and such an amount is still
00:19:13salvageable." And then the person is called
00:19:16who will immediately remove that clot from the cerebral
00:19:20artery. Do you notice that artificial intelligence in radiology is perhaps the most
00:19:23advanced, or do you have any idea compared to other
00:19:27fields? In radiology, artificial intelligence has perhaps
00:19:30been used the most, perhaps the longest. In some European
00:19:34countries, for example, AI already does
00:19:38the first reading of screenings, which means that a human doesn't
00:19:41look at normal images anymore, AI selects
00:19:45those that need human attention, and
00:19:49some are then left out of the pot, meaning this saves
00:19:53our resources, that we don't have to review all these things. In Estonia, we are
00:19:57not yet that far, mhm, in Estonia, every
00:20:00patient is still examined by a doctor. Yes, and in the case of screening, the important
00:20:04nuance is that it must be done by two people. Completely
00:20:07healthy people come to the examination, and two radiologists look at
00:20:11the image, one looks and the other looks. Let's talk about the other side too, how
00:20:15much AI, artificial intelligence, makes mistakes?
00:20:19It varies greatly by product,
00:20:21and it depends on how sensitive we make the AI. If
00:20:25we make it very sensitive, then it makes more
00:20:28mistakes. If we make it less sensitive, then it makes
00:20:32fewer mistakes, but then it misses
00:20:35things. What is being worked on today is precisely to find
00:20:38that golden mean, where it would find all those things, but
00:20:42not create too much noise. Where could radiology
00:20:45develop with artificial intelligence in the next 50
00:20:49years? Do you have any idea of what doesn't exist
00:20:53yet but you might dream of? Speech recognition is one thing
00:20:56that is elsewhere,
00:20:59outside Estonia, very normal in the context of radiology,
00:21:02that everyone dictates radiological answers, but since
00:21:06Estonian is so specific, there hasn't been very good
00:21:10speech recognition in Estonia until now. How would that work in practice, if that
00:21:13speech recognition was in Estonian, what could you do with it then?
00:21:17Most of the time I'm looking at an image, mhm, and at the same time. While I'm looking at this image,
00:21:20I start describing that
00:21:24the cortical gyri are widened, cerebral atrophy
00:21:28has developed, here he has a lesion, in the region of the
00:21:32basal ganglia on the left,
00:21:34so I look at the image, I can already speak, and the text then
00:21:38goes automatically, it goes automatically to you, but since we don't have that right now, then
00:21:41it's like this: I look, I write, I look, I write, I look, I write,
00:21:45and that's what actually takes up my time, exactly that.
00:21:49How to take doctors'. overburdening bureaucracy and
00:21:52paperwork away and give time for direct communication with patients
00:21:56will be the greatest charm and challenge of artificial intelligence
00:21:59in the coming years. Professor of Practical Ethics Kadri
00:22:02Simm sees great advantages in the application of artificial
00:22:06intelligence in medicine, especially considering that the financial
00:22:09resources of the healthcare system are increasingly constrained. However, according to her,
00:22:12the dangers and risks that have accompanied
00:22:15new technologies throughout history must be considered.
00:22:19Gunpowder can be used to make bombs and fireworks, and
00:22:23in the case of medical technologies, we also have many examples of
00:22:26how whether its effects are good or bad does not actually depend
00:22:30so much on the technology as on the context in which it
00:22:33is applied. A good example, this is not AI, but
00:22:37it's ultrasound technology, which is actually a relatively cheap technology, used for a very
00:22:41long time in pregnancy monitoring.
00:22:44And as a result, we now
00:22:47have a situation where, you know, there are many
00:22:50countries and nations where there are many more
00:22:53boys than girls, because during pregnancy monitoring
00:22:56with ultrasound, it is possible to determine the sex of the child. And if the
00:23:00cultural context and social context, you know,
00:23:03supports some visions that boys are better than
00:23:06girls, then the consequence of this is now that we are missing millions of girls
00:23:10and millions of women, and well, basically a social catastrophe
00:23:14because these women were never born. And yet the same
00:23:18technology here in Estonia has not caused anything like that, right?
00:23:22So when talking about the impact of technology, it is always really important
00:23:25to consider the society, the culture, or
00:23:29perhaps the specific medical field that influences it.
00:23:31In the case of artificial intelligence, Simm primarily sees a danger in the
00:23:35increase of inequality.
00:23:38how AI is trained
00:23:41on certain data, and that data comes from somewhere.
00:23:44In today's world, it's mostly English and Chinese
00:23:48data, which represents populations, or even more precisely,
00:23:52not the entire population. For
00:23:55example, in America, only those who have money to go to the doctor and who make it there,
00:23:59and then data is generated about them, right? And
00:24:02one concern with this is that, yes, that data is biased and the application
00:24:06of algorithms developed on the basis of these data
00:24:10in other societies,
00:24:13on different populations, may cause such problems. Simm
00:24:17predicts that as artificial intelligence grows,
00:24:21in the treatment of patients, doctors' technological
00:24:23awareness will become increasingly important.
00:24:27Of course, it is important that doctors trust and know
00:24:31how artificial intelligence works in their field. And, well,
00:24:35this is related to the broader question, isn't it, of medical education
00:24:38in general today, what should be paid attention to there first
00:24:42and how the advent of artificial intelligence affects how this
00:24:45medical education is given, what is generally taught,
00:24:48because data comes in so terribly much
00:24:51all the time. And people are never equal
00:24:54in their ability to analyze that amount of data compared
00:24:58to artificial intelligence, so something else is what
00:25:01that doctor should be doing there, so that doctors,
00:25:04and also other medical workers who are dealing
00:25:08with diagnosis using artificial intelligence,
00:25:11should know how
00:25:13it works. Now, a more complex problem is that
00:25:16often the developers themselves don't know how that answer
00:25:20comes out from the other end, but it's also interesting
00:25:24that, well, we have different legal frameworks, don't we?
00:25:27We have the United States, which is influential, we have
00:25:31the European Union, which is influential, we have our own Estonia,
00:25:35right, that in different legal frameworks,
00:25:38there are different opinions on this, for example,
00:25:41resuscitation, a resuscitation decision,
00:25:45right, that if there are no doctors nearby,
00:25:48no medical workers nearby, the question is whether to resuscitate
00:25:52or not. Again, if artificial intelligence
00:25:55or that system has the information that this person
00:25:58in no case wishes to be resuscitated, well, then
00:26:02it can be said that if it is not resuscitated,
00:26:06if artificial intelligence makes such a decision, then
00:26:10it is the right decision, or vice versa, right? Well,
00:26:13as long as a human is still ultimately responsible
00:26:16in some sense, that the doctor has put it into
00:26:20the system.
00:26:21I think that
00:26:25there is no clear black and white line
00:26:29between what artificial intelligence is allowed
00:26:32to decide and what it is not, if the final
00:26:35word does not remain with it.
00:26:38It is clear that we are living through a time of great
00:26:42changes and it is probably
00:27:33the main role in its development. The technological readiness
00:27:36is already there today. The question is rather,
00:27:39are you ready?
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00:30:45How do the distant comrades-in-arms cope
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