AI Will Predict Your Life Expectancy By Looking At CT scans

Artificial intelligence has been making huge strides in recent years, whether it is in the field of robotics of smartphone technology. But, one field that could benefit largely from AI is medicine and early disease detection. Scientists working at the University of Adelaide however, have created an AI system that will let you know if you are going to die soon. Read: Is Artificial Intelligence Dangerous? "Predicting the future of a patient is useful because it may enable doctors to tailor treatments to the individual. The accurate assessment of biological age and the prediction of a patient's longevity has so far been limited by doctors' inability to look inside the body and measure the health of each organ. Our research has investigated the use of'deep learning', a technique where computer systems can learn how to understand and analyse image," Dr Luke Oakden-Rayner, a radiologist and a doctoral candidate with the university told the Nature Magazine Thursday.