Artificial intelligence surpasses humans in analyzing cardiac diagnosis graphs

In addition to responding to all kinds of questions and generating never-before-seen images, artificial intelligence has significant applications for medicine. The magazine Nature published a study in which AI improves on human results in evaluating echocardiogram images, used to diagnose cardiac problems. The authors, a multidisciplinary team at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, did a randomized blind study --the first of its kind with this technology-- to evaluate the AI's precision analyzing 3,495 echocardiogram images that show the heart's functioning. In the study, cardiologists were asked to assess evaluations that either technicians or AI software made of the ultrasound images. The doctors corrected mistakes in 16.8% of AI evaluations, compared to 27.2% of human ones. Additionally, the cardiologists could not tell which evaluations were done by AI and which by humans.