Artificial Intelligence could use EKG Data to Measure Our Health

In the not-too-distant future, medical professionals might be able to apply AI to electrocardiogram data in order to measure a patient's overall health status. This is according to new research published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, a journal of the American Heart Association. An electrocardiogram - also called an EKG or ECG - is a test used to measure the electrical activity of the heart. A patient's sex and age can have an effect on how an EKG turns out. That's why the team of researchers built an AI that could determine a patient's gender and estimate their'physiologic age' - an indicator of overall health that is different from chronological age.