AI Detects Heart Disease with a Simple X-Ray (1)
Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University are giving AI a heart... sort of. They've whipped up a cutting-edge AI application that's all about the ticker, classifying heart functions and pinpointing valvular heart disease using just chest X-rays. Traditionally, diagnosing this disease meant using echocardiography, but that requires some serious skills, and there's a shortage of pros who can do it. Enter chest X-rays, which are way more common and quick to do.
Great example of AI making healthcare faster, cheaper and more accessible. Echocardiography is expensive, specialized and time consuming, whereas X-rays are available virtually everywhere. We hope to see AI powered diagnosis adopted into annual checkup workflows soon.
Dr. Daiju Ueda and his squad trained their AI model on a whopping 22,551 chest X-rays linked with echocardiograms from nearly 17,000 patients. The result? The AI could spot six types of valvular heart disease with impressive accuracy. Dr. Ueda thinks this tech could be a game-changer, especially in places without specialists or during those late-night emergencies.
