# Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

DevFeed: [Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-imagery-6866.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://research.google/blog/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-imagery/>)

Published: 2026-08-17T10:34:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The latest research from Google](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-latest-research-from-google.md>)

Topics: [Deep neural networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deep-neural-networks.md>), [Deep learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deep-learning.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [deep-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-learning.md>), [general-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/general-science.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [health](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/health.md>), [health-bioscience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/health-bioscience.md>), [machine-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-intelligence.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/science.md>)

## AI overview

Google Research presents PhotoScan, a deep learning approach that estimates body composition from smartphone photos and predicts insulin resistance with accuracy comparable to DXA scans in a clinical research setting. The article explains how body-composition measures such as fat distribution and visceral fat may complement wearable data for earlier cardiometabolic risk assessment.

## Source excerpt

General Science