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11-07-2014, 01:00 AM
Automatic Ingestion Monitor, a Food Tracker for Your Diet
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Many people looking to lose weight these days use wearable fitness trackers to automatically monitor calories burned*during exercise. Caloric intake, on the other hand, requires manual input by the user that leads people to either skip it altogether or provide estimates that are often **t very accurate. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Edward Sazo**v of University of Alabama have been working on a system to more automatically quantify what you eat.
http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Device-for-diet.pngThe Automatic Ingestion Monitor resembles a wearable Bluetooth headset that wraps around the ear. It has a camera on the front to photograph the food that is brought up to the mouth, and within the device there’s a sensor that can detect the motion of the jaw. Special software can distinguish between different jaw motions so that conversations are **t mistaken for meals. The system will hopefully be able to identify the food a person is eating and accurately estimate how much of it is consumed. The tech**logy is already at a stage to have just received a $1.8 million grant from the NIH to begin testing the system in a study to evaluate its practical applications.
Link:*UA Professor Developing Wearable Device to Track Diet… (http://uanews.ua.edu/2014/11/ua-professor-developing-wearable-device-to-track-diet/)
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http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/food-tracker.png
Many people looking to lose weight these days use wearable fitness trackers to automatically monitor calories burned*during exercise. Caloric intake, on the other hand, requires manual input by the user that leads people to either skip it altogether or provide estimates that are often **t very accurate. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Edward Sazo**v of University of Alabama have been working on a system to more automatically quantify what you eat.
http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Device-for-diet.pngThe Automatic Ingestion Monitor resembles a wearable Bluetooth headset that wraps around the ear. It has a camera on the front to photograph the food that is brought up to the mouth, and within the device there’s a sensor that can detect the motion of the jaw. Special software can distinguish between different jaw motions so that conversations are **t mistaken for meals. The system will hopefully be able to identify the food a person is eating and accurately estimate how much of it is consumed. The tech**logy is already at a stage to have just received a $1.8 million grant from the NIH to begin testing the system in a study to evaluate its practical applications.
Link:*UA Professor Developing Wearable Device to Track Diet… (http://uanews.ua.edu/2014/11/ua-professor-developing-wearable-device-to-track-diet/)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=Za_RpQYG6xs:pB8fMPYjiC0:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=Za_RpQYG6xs:pB8fMPYjiC0:qj6IDK7rITs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?i=Za_RpQYG6xs:pB8fMPYjiC0:gIN9vFwOqvQ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=Za_RpQYG6xs:pB8fMPYjiC0:gIN9vFwOqvQ)
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