Researchers train an AI model on wearables data and predict a range of health conditions with stunning 92% accuracy. Pregnancy is the most successful test.
What if your Apple Watch or iPhone could act as a proxy pregnancy test? Not to replace an official blood test, of course, but perhaps as an early form of early detection.
A new Apple-backed study analyzed wearables data with AI and found the method predicted whether participants were pregnant with 92% accuracy. Rather than only looking at biometric data, such as heart rate or temperature, it also layered in behavioral data. That means how often you exercise, when you go to sleep, and your walking gait, for example.
« The combination is remarkably performant for pregnancy prediction », the study says. « Pregnancy results in substantial changes.to an individual’s behavior. Hence, this task acts as a clear example of the complementary nature of modeling both types of data.
