Artificial intelligence used to predict death rates of heart patients - SiliconANGLE

Companies are already using artificial intelligence to play board games and recommend content, and now researchers want to use AI for something a bit more personal: predicting how long heart patients have to live. In a paper recently published in the journal Radiology, researchers at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences used machine learning to predict the mortality rates of patients suffering from pulmonary hypertension, a rare and serious lung disorder that restricts the amount of oxygen going to the heart. If left untreated, roughly one-third of patients suffering from PH die within five years. Because the disorder is worsens over time, it is important for doctors to accurately estimate a patient's life expectancy to determine how aggressively they should treat the condition. Using machine learning, the researchers trained an AI using over eight years of patient health data.