AI Predicts Death?

While the use of artificial intelligence to predict deaths may sound ludicrous, researchers are trying to establish the technology's potential in alerting physicians and medical professionals of patients that are at greater risks of dying in the near future. This way, doctors can administer the right end-of-life approach in dealing with the patients and their loved ones. A team at Stanford University has examined the use of artificial intelligence in palliative care in their paper "Improving Palliative Care with Deep Learning" published on the arXiv preprint server. Researchers used the machine learning technique called deep learning, which utilizes neural networks to filter and learn from massive data, in the study. What they did is come up with a model and fed its deep learning algorithm with data from the Electronic Health Records of 2 million adult and child patients admitted to either Stanford Hospital or Lucile Packard Children's hospital.