Artificial Intelligence might one day be able to prompt you that a heart attack might be looming. It might even give you instructions (recommendations if you don’t want to be controlled) on what to do to nip that looming heart attack in the bud. The findings come out of Johns Hopkins University from a team of biomedical engineers led by Natalia Trayanova.
AI predicts if and when you might have a fatal heart attack
From www.futurity.org
2022-04-11 13:57:24
Jill Rosen-Johns Hopkins
Excerpt:
A new artificial intelligence-based approach can predict if and when a patient could die of a heart attack.
The technology, built on raw images of patient’s diseased hearts and patient backgrounds, significantly improves on doctor’s predictions and stands to revolutionize clinical decision making and increase survival from sudden and lethal cardiac arrhythmias, one of medicine’s deadliest and most puzzling conditions.
“Sudden cardiac death caused by arrhythmia accounts for as many as 20% of all deaths worldwide and we know little about why it’s happening or how to tell who’s at risk,” says senior author Natalia Trayanova, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
“There are patients who may be at low risk of sudden cardiac death getting defibrillators that they might not need and then there are high-risk patients that aren’t getting the treatment they need and could die in the prime of their life. What our algorithm can do is determine who is at risk for cardiac death and when it will occur, allowing doctors to decide exactly what needs to be done.”
