AI may have an 'eye' on growing babies: Could predict premature birth as early as 31 weeks

Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel joins'Fox & Friends' to discuss the benefits of artificial intelligence in the medical industry if used with caution. About 10% of all infants born in the U.S. in 2021 were preterm -- which means they were delivered earlier than 37 weeks of pregnancy, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Preterm births also make up about 16% of infant deaths. Now, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, are looking to improve those odds through the use of artificial intelligence. They developed a deep learning model that can predict preterm births by analyzing electrical activity in the woman's uterus during pregnancy -- then they tested the model in a study that was published in the medical journal PLOS One.