Heart-scanning AI predicts cardiac arrests up to 10 years ahead

“Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed an artificial intelligence approach they say can help predict if and when a person could die of cardiac arrest based on imaging scans of the heart.  By analyzing the patterns of scar tissue that can develop in the cardiac muscle over time due to heart disease, the researchers found that the AI algorithms could offer accurate predictions of a person’s risk up to 10 years ahead.  That scar tissue can affect how the heart’s timekeeping electrical pulses travel to the contracting ventricles, resulting in abnormal heart rhythms that can become dangerous if left untreated.”       MORE

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