Since the start of the year, some surgeons and residents at UC San Diego Health have had access to a new surgical resource: reams of video recordings of them performing operations, parsed by artificial intelligence. Video recordings of procedures are uploaded to the cloud for quick analysis. The five surgeons involved in the project and their residents then receive videos of their minimally invasive procedures, which are divided into critical steps with a dashboard that compares an operation against previous procedures. The system pixelates distinguishing features of patients and staff, such as faces and tattoos, to de-identify them. All done with the assistance of AI. "It's giving active feedback on how your operation performed," said Dr. Santiago Horgan, chief of the minimally invasive surgery division and director of the Center for the Future of Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Since the start of the year, some surgeons and residents at UC San Diego Health have had access to a new surgical resource: reams of video recordings of them performing operations, parsed by artificial intelligence. Video recordings of procedures are uploaded to the cloud for quick analysis. The five surgeons involved in the project and their residents then receive videos of their minimally invasive procedures, which are divided into critical steps with a dashboard that compares an operation against previous procedures. The system pixelates distinguishing features of patients and staff, such as faces and tattoos, to de-identify them. All done with the assistance of AI. "It's giving active feedback on how your operation performed," said Dr. Santiago Horgan, chief of the minimally invasive surgery division and director of the Center for the Future of Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

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When Avi Yagil, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California San Diego flew home from Europe in 2012, he thought he had caught a cold from his travels. When a "collection of pills" did not improve his symptoms, his wife encouraged him to see a doctor. Further tests revealed something far more life-threatening to Yagil than the common cold. "A chest X-Ray showed my lungs were flooded with fluid, and a subsequent echocardiogram found I had damage to my heart." Yagil was diagnosed with heart failure.

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool had an 88% success rate in predicting life expectancy in patients with heart failure, researchers at UC San Diego Health reported in the European Journal of Heart Failure. Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers developed a mortality risk score in patients with heart failure. The risk score had an area under the curve of 0.88 and was predictive across the full spectrum of risk, study authors wrote. The results support the use of the AI to evaluate patients with heart failure and in other settings where predicting risk has been challenging, reported the authors. "This tool gives us insight, for example, on the probability that a given patient will die from heart failure in the next three months or a year," said Eric Adler, M.D., cardiologist and director of cardiac transplant and mechanical circulatory support at the Cardiovascular Institute at UC San Diego Health.

When Avi Yagil, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California San Diego flew home from Europe in 2012, he thought he had caught a cold from his travels. When a "collection of pills" did not improve his symptoms, his wife encouraged him to see a doctor. Further tests revealed something far more life-threatening to Yagil than the common cold. "A chest X-Ray showed my lungs were flooded with fluid, and a subsequent echocardiogram found I had damage to my heart." Yagil was diagnosed with heart failure.

Sam Cavaliere, a San Diego tech worker, considers himself in average health, though the 47-year-old admits, "I can always stand to lose a little weight." Like a lot of iPhone owners, he uses the Apple Health app to keep track of his weight, exercise routines and how many steps he takes in a day. Now the app is also storing his health records. Hundreds of health care providers around the country allow their clients to use the Apple Health app to store their medical records. Hundreds of health care providers around the country allow their clients to use the Apple Health app to store their medical records.