AI can help detect heart problems

• Perceptible heart palpitations, when the heart feels like beating, throbbing or beating irregularly
• Your heart can also beat very fast (often much more than 100 beats per minute)
• You can calculate your heart rate by checking the pulse of your neck or wrist.
• Fatigue, difficulty exercising, shortness of breath, fainting or lightheadedness, and chest pain
• The way the heart beats in atrial fibrillation reduces heart performance and efficiency
• This can lead to low blood pressure (hypotension) and heart failure
• You should see your doctor immediately if you notice a sudden change in your heart rate and chest pain.
• Sometimes, atrial fibrillation causes no symptoms and a person who suffers from it is totally unaware that his heart rate is irregular.

Source: NHS England

At the present time, where these tests – called electrocardiograms – do not detect abnormal rhythms, doctors can ask the patient to undergo long-term cardiac monitoring.

But instead, computer modeling has been asked to look for what doctors view as subtle signs of irregular rhythms from the past, including scars in the heart, which can not be spotted by the human eye as a result of the test results.

Computer modeling badyzed the tests performed on nearly 181,000 patients between 1993 and 2017.

These were all patients who had had normal test results in the beginning.

The modeling correctly identified the subsequent diagnosis from the normal test results in 83% of the cases.

Dr. Paul Friedman, of the Mayo Clinic, said that the planet's potential was real: "It's like looking at the ocean now and being able to say that there were big waves yesterday. . "

But the team said modeling should now be tested further to see if it could be deployed on the front line.

Professor Tim Chico, expert in cardiology at the University of Sheffield, described the results as "very important".

"This AI-based approach could be a breakthrough, even though it's important to note that this research is still in its infancy and we need to see replicated results and how the algorithm works." responds when it is tested on the general population. "