UK researchers use AI to predict heart attacks and stroke

In a recent UK study, researchers have used AI for the first time to measure blood flow and predict chances of death, heart attack and stroke. For the study, which was funded by the British Heart Foundation, researchers took routine Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) scans from more than 1,000 patients at London's St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital and used new AI to analyze the images. The AI-assisted approach enabled the researchers to precisely and instantaneously quantify the blood flow to the heart muscle and deliver the measurements to the medical teams treating the patients. "Artificial intelligence is moving out of the computer labs and into the real world of healthcare, carrying out some tasks better than doctors could do alone," said Professor James Moon, of the London-based UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Barts Health NHS Trust. "We have tried to measure blood flow manually before, but it is tedious and time-consuming, taking doctors away from where they are needed most, with their patients."