Use AI to predict Heart Attacks a year before it happens (Use Case)

For #transformationtuesdays I’m sharing how AI is Transforming the way you can determine if you will encounter any health issues in the near future – specifically Heart Attacks.

Read on to see how they made it work.

What they did was to take a lot of ECG scans, where the researchers already knew the outcome for each i.e. which ones ended up getting a heart attack and by when, and which ones did not get a heart attack.

The researchers then fed the data into a Machine Learning algorithm for it to train on that data.

The results are astounding, as the AI was then able to predict upcoming heart attacks and other heart-related diseases better than real-life Cardiologists e.g. those who said the ECG scans were clear, but the patients still ended up getting heart attacks.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/473282-ai-predicts-heart-attacks/

Ending note

I hope you learned something new today.

If you want to learn how to do this, and you think a career in Artificial Intelligence is for you, even if you’re just a beginner, I would recommend you check out the IBM Applied AI Professional course, which you can check further for details.

What did you learn that apples to you? What will you implement moving forward?