Study: Can AI predict heart failure?

A study in Radiology investigated whether a machine learning model can predict patient survival of heart failure in pulmonary hypertension. The researchers identified 256 patients who were diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. Each of these patients underwent cardiac MRI, right-sided heart catheterization and six-minute walk testing with a median follow-up of four years. The researchers used the cardiac MRI to create 3-D models of right ventricular motion, which a machine learning algorithm used to identify patterns predictive of survival. By the end of the research period, 36 percent of the patients had died.