Doctors could team up with AI to spot dangerous brain bleeds faster

An AI that can spot a brain haemorrhage on an X-ray scan could help diagnose strokes, head injuries and ruptured blood vessels. The software was able to identify signs of bleeding in the head with similar accuracy to radiologists. While computers won't be replacing doctors any time soon, one area where they are making progress is in identifying signs of disease from images. Software can recognise moles that are likely to be cancerous from photographs, as well as eye damage caused by diabetes from pictures of the back of the eye, with near-human levels of ability. Now Esther Yuh at the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleagues have developed a program that can interpret CT scans of heads. These involve multiple X-rays taken to create detailed images.