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Help save lives and help children!
Share a 20-30 second video of your child’s breathing to support the development of a life-seving AI tool.
The tool will quickly identify breathing conditions and improve treatment and disease management.
Your contribution matters – no identifying information is needed, and no extra commitments are required.
Join today!
Sample video:
How to participate
Who we need for the study:
Any child under the age of 6
Study process (takes up to 10 minutes):
1. Record a 20 second clip of your child breathing according to the recording instructions
2. Sign the informed consent
3. Answer 5 short questions
4. Upload the clip
Recording instructions
- Lye your child down on their back, with the chest and belly exposed
- Hold your phone in landscape
- focus the camera on your child’s chest and belly from the side
(avoid the face) - Hold the camera steady
- Record for 20-30 seconds
- Go back to study site to complete process
Thank you!
Questions and Answers
All children under 6 years old are encouraged to participate.
If your child has a medical condition you can tell us about it as part of the background questions.
The study complies with all regulations and requirements
of private data collection.
No identifying information is collected, and if any is accidently uploaded it will be removed.
Every participant gets a unique encrypted ID. Only this ID will be attached to
the information and clip you provide.
The vidoe you upload will undergo a review and we will remove sections of the video that might have accidently included your child’s face. The video will be completely unidentifiable.
The newly developed algorithm that will activate the breathing pattern
analysis needs to be trained. To do this it needs a large database of
videos showing children’s chest and belly movements while breathing.
Your video will be added to the database and allow the algorithm to
“learn” and identify different breathing patterns.
Every video added to the database helps.
Yes. you can record your child in any condition- asleep, awake, healthy or sick.
Just follow the recording instructions and make sure there is enough
lighting.
We don’t know of any risks or harms associated with participating in this study.
While participation in this study may not directly benefit your child, we aim to
contribute valuable insights for the development of a Smart Phone App.
this app, once created, has the potential to assist parents and non-medical caregivers in early detection of conditions such as pneumonia or asthma exacerbation. This realy detection could enable quicker intervention, helping to prevent the worsening of symptoms.
As a token of appreciation for your participation, we offer early and complimentary
1-year access to the finalized AI-based tool. This exclusive access ensures that you stay ahead in caring for your little one. Simply reach out to us and provide your unique code to avail of this benefit.
The Impact
Our study will impact communities and children around the world.
Read more below to learn how you will help in the following fields…
Low-Resource Countries
Pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality in children under 5 years of age, accounting for
nearly one million deaths worldwide per year, especially in countries with limited resources
and remote areas in Africa.
When a child catches pneumonia theirlungs fill with puss and fluid, causing rapid and
labored breath, with in-drawing of the chest. This is known as “increased work of breath”
(IWOB).The diagnosis of IWOB is not well defined and there are currently no objective tests
or ratings to clearly diagnose this.
The ability to have a tool and a clear measurement for diagnosis of IWOB and pneumonia,
which can be easily used anywhere, even in remote and low-resource countries will allow
better diagnosis and treatment of the condition.
Reducing Emergency Room Visits
Using a home-based monitoring tool will allow parents to identify
deterioration of breathing conditions. Parents will be able to monitor their
child’s respiratory condition and provide the correct treatment, thus
preventing deterioration and unnecessary emergency room visits.
Precision (Personolized) Medicine
Treatment by gene therapy has revolutionized the use of precision medicine
in neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) like Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Whereas respiratory failure remains a
leading cause of death in children with these diseases.
Our Core Team
We are a Pediatric Pulmonology clinic at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical
Center, Ichilov, located in Israel.
In addition to our clinical work, our team of doctors also conducts
research studying respiratory function and disease in children.
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