Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Death Risk - Neuroscience News

Summary: A new machine-learning algorithm which videos of echocardiograms is able to accurately predict patients who will die within a year. Researchers at Geisinger have found that a computer algorithm developed using echocardiogram videos of the heart can predict mortality within a year. The algorithm–an example of what is known as machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI)–outperformed other clinically used predictors, including pooled cohort equations and the Seattle Heart Failure score. The results of the study were published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. "We were excited to find that machine learning can leverage unstructured datasets such as medical images and videos to improve on a wide range of clinical prediction models," said Chris Haggerty, Ph.D., co-senior author and assistant professor in the Department of Translational Data Science and Informatics at Geisinger.