Nutricia is investing in developing such digital tools to help give parents peace of mind about the health & wellbeing of their little ones – particularly when it comes to their baby’s nutrition and digestive health. When babies and toddlers have changes in their diets – such as moving on from breast milk or changing baby formulas – this can lead to changes in their bowel movements & stool consistency. That’s often a cause of concern for parents. Nutricia wanted to explore how to combine a technology parents have – smart phones –with artificial intelligence/machine learning for medical image recognition, to develop an algorithm capable of identifying and classifying stool consistency. Until now, smartphone photos have not been well studied for potential use in this type of medical image recognition.