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An artificial intelligence system that can identify people who are likely to suffer heart attacks up to 10 years in the future could soon be in operation across Britain.
Oxford University team say thousands of lives could be saved by technology that finds hidden data in CT scans
“This technology has now been tested at several hospitals across the UK and results have been tremendously encouraging,” said Prof Charalambos Antoniades, leader of the Orfan (Oxford Risk Factors And Non Invasive Imaging) study. , led by a team at Oxford University’s Radcliffe Department of Medicine and published in the Lancet last week, has been designed to spot the abnormalities that are being missed from standard CT (computed tomography) scans. The study, funded by the British Heart Foundation, revealed that in 45% of cases, clinicians decided to change a patient’s treatment in view of data that was provided by AI analysis.
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