Computer can tell doctors when your heart will fail

Artificial intelligence software that can predict when a heart is going to fail by analysing scans of it beating has been developed by British scientists. The technology could help doctors to identify patients at greater risk of death sooner and provide more intensive treatment straight away. The machine-learning software, developed by researchers at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London, analyses moving images of a patient's heart captured during an MRI scan. It uses advanced image processing to build a digital model which replicates the way more than 30,000 points in the heart contract during each beat. The team fed the system historic data from hundreds of patients.