Google's AI can now predict heart attacks

Google's AI can now predict the risk of heart disease by looking at the patient's eye. Researchers from Alphabet (Google's parent company) subsidiary Verily discovered this new method by deploying machine learning. The research was published earlier today in the journal Nature, titled "Prediction of cardiovascular risk factors from retinal fundus photographs via deep learning". By analysing scans of the back of a patient's eye, Verily software can predict their risk of heart disease. "With medical images, observing and quantifying associations can often be difficult because of the wide variety of features, patterns, colors, values, and shapes that are present in real data. Here, we show that deep learning can extract new knowledge from retinal fundus images," says the paper.