This AI calculator can tell how close you are to death
An AI-enabled death calculator developed by researchers can predict future health risks and potential death using an electrocardiogram or ECG.
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- AI-ECG Risk Estimator is a tool that predicts future health risks
- This AI tool predicts serious heart conditions and mortality risk up to a decade in advance
- Britain will test this device in two hospitals next year
Researchers have developed an AI-enabled mortality calculator that can tell you how close you are to your death.
Published in Lancet Digital Health, the study showed that AI-powered electrocardiograms (ECGs) can help predict a personâs risk of future health issues and even death, but their use has yet to be Not used in everyday medical care.
Current prediction models do not offer clear steps for individual patients, are not easy to explain, and do not align well with biology.
To tackle these issues, Lancet researchers created a new tool called the AI-ECG Risk Estimator (AIRE).
In addition to predicting mortality, AIRE can also predict future heart failure, a condition in which the heart stops being able to pump efficiently, leading to health problems and early death in about eight out of ten cases. It happens.
âWe sought to address these limitations of previous AI-ECG approaches by developing the AI-ECG Risk Estimator (AIRE) platform,â the researchers wrote.
Two hospitals under Britainâs health agency National Health Service are set to trial the technology from the middle of next year. But experts hope it will be used in healthcare within five years.
Hundreds of patients entering hospitals may soon get estimated lifespan predictions from an AI âdeath calculator.â The device uses a single electrocardiogram (ECG) test, which records heart activity over minutes, to detect hidden health problems that doctors might otherwise miss.
The program, called AI-ECG Risk Estimation, or AIRE, has been proven in studies to correctly identify the risk of death with 78% accuracy over 10 years after ECG.
How does this technology work?
Lancet researchers trained the technology using a dataset of 1.16 million ECG test results from 189,539 patients.
They found that it detected future serious heart rhythm problems in three-quarters (76%) of cases and future atherosclerotic heart disease, where the arteries narrow, making it difficult for blood to flow, in seven out of ten cases. .
Clinicians will be informed not only about the diagnosis, but also about the many health risks, allowing early intervention and disease prevention.
For example, if the AIRE risk estimate says youâre at high risk for a specific heart rhythm problem, you can be more aggressive about preventing it from happening.
