Thousands of lives could be saved every year by using a new artificial intelligence tool that performs better than doctors at predicting if patients will have a heart attack, a study suggests.
The technology from the University of Oxford, based on 40,000 patients in UK hospitals, can spot people with early heart problems that are missed on CT scans reviewed by the human eye.
It would mean those people could start preventive treatment, such as statins, cutting their risk of suffering or dying from a heart attack or stroke during the next decade. The AI tool is already being piloted in five UK hospitals, and researchers hope it can be rolled out further.
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