Massachusetts General's AI can spot brain hemorrhages as accurately as humans

They interrupt blood flow around or inside of the brain, depriving it of oxygen, which is why timely treatment is critical. After three or four minutes, brain cells begin to die. Fortunately, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to drive progress on the diagnostic front. In a paper ("An explainable deep-learning algorithm for the detection of acute intracranial hemorrhages from small datasets") published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering last month, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston describe a deep learning algorithm that can detect acute intracerebral hemorrhages, or ICHs, with a high degree of accuracy. Their work comes about a month after researchers at the University of California, Berkeley demonstrated an AI system that can predict Alzheimer's disease from brain scans up to six years in advance.