AI could predict how much time people have left to live by analyzing body scans

A computer could automatically assess scans to see potential health risks before they become obvious. There's an elusive innovation that would revolutionize medicine: a way to detect disease before it becomes obvious. A study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports could bring us a step closer to that capability. The paper reveals how artificial intelligence analyses of routine medical scans could be turned into powerful predictors of a person's health and risk of death. For the study, researchers used a machine learning algorithm to analyze routine chest CT scans from 48 adults, all of whom were over 60 years of age.