Artificial intelligence tool can detect fatal heart disease with 80% accuracy

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London . British researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that can detect a person’s life-threatening heart problem with 80 percent accuracy.

Ventricular arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm that indicates a problem with the lower chambers of the heart. In this condition the blood pressure decreases along with fast heartbeats. If this fatal problem is not treated on time, it can be fatal.

A team led by the University of Leicester in the UK has developed a tool called VA-ResNet-50. The study, published in the European Heart Journal Digital Health, used the device to examine the Holter electrocardiogram (ECG) of 270 adults living at home between 2014 and 2022.

About 159 people experienced a fatal ventricular arrhythmia an average of 1.6 years after ECG.

The VA-Resnet-50 was used to examine the patient’s heart to see if he might have the deadly disease.

In four out of every five cases, the AI ​​tool correctly predicted which patient’s heart was capable of ventricular arrhythmia.

“Current clinical guidelines that help us decide which patients are at highest risk of ventricular arrhythmias and which should be treated with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator,” said Professor Andre Ng, professor of cardiac electrophysiology and head of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the university. will be most beneficial with life-saving treatment. This problem causes a large number of deaths.

“After testing with the tool, the risk of fatal disease was three times higher than that of normal adults,” the professor said.

“Using artificial intelligence tools to examine patients’ electrocardiograms provides a new lens into normal heart rhythms through which we can learn their risk factors and suggest appropriate treatments that reduce the risk of death,” he said. can be done.”

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