Doctors using AI to predict heart attack risk more accurately

London doctors are using artificial intelligence to predict which patients with chest pains are at greatest risk of death. 

A trial at Barts Heart Centre, in Smithfield, and the Royal Free Hospital, in Hampstead, found that poor blood flow was a “strong predictor” of heart attack, stroke and heart failure. Doctors used computer programmes to analyse images of the heart from more than 1,000 patients and cross-referenced the scans with their health over the next two years. The computers were “taught” to search for indicators of future “adverse cardiovascular outcomes” and are now used in a real-time basis to help doctors identify who is most at risk.

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Source: Evening Standard, 15 February 2020