Nottingham scientists discover artificial intelligence which predicts future heart disease and strokes - Notts TV News The heart of Nottingham news coverage for Notts TV

A team of primary care researchers and computer scientists at the University of Nottingham compared a set of standard guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) with four'machine-learning' algorithms. The algorithms analyse large amounts of data and self-learn patterns to make predictions on future events – which in this case was a patient's future risk of having heart disease or a stroke. The results showed the self-teaching'artificially intelligent' tools were significantly more accurate in predicting cardiovascular disease than the established algorithm. In computer science, the AI algorithms that were used are called'random forest', 'logistic regression', 'gradient boosting' and'neural networks'. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a general term for conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels.