Palestinian Carevision Amani Amin Wins Web Summit Final pitch

A ‘startup’ Carevision from Palestinian Amani Amin, who is dedicated to preventing cardiovascular diseases through a face photograph using artificial intelligence (IA), won this year’s Web Summit final Pitch.

“ With Carevision just use the simple camera of the mobile phone, do a face analysis for 30 seconds and ready, we performed a risk analysis for 14 heart and metabolic diseases with an accuracy of 97%”, said the founder and CEO of ‘startup’, Amani Amin, in statements to Lusa.

The company uses several trained AI models with 12 million electrocardiogram records (ECG) in order to extract more than 30 digital biomarkers from a facial scan and differentiate between normal and abnormal signals.

“ We trained the model with 12 million ECG records so that the model can differentiate between normal and abnormal signals and, if abnormal, identify what disease it is: atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter and so on ", advanced the founder to Lusa.

The CEO of ‘startup’ also stated that achieving the prize proves that the Palestinian people “are like any other people”, creates companies, is talented and works.

“ We were happy to receive this award, because this is proof to everyone that the Palestinian people are like any other people: they work, create businesses, they are talented and bring technology to save lives,” he said.

“ Therefore, we advocate peace, we advocate improving the quality of life [...], we want to draw attention to what is happening in Palestine right now and to the fact that unfortunately, despite several years under occupation, things are not evolving for the better”, he added.

The company is headquartered in Saudi Arabia and branch in Florida, USA, but the company's goal is to scale worldwide.