Artificial intelligence predicts patient lifespans

This is no surprise as we hear something new everyday about AI (Artificial Intelligence)

This system will have implications for the early diagnosis of serious illness, and medical intervention.

A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research led by the University of Adelaide.

The analysis was done on medical imaging of 48 patients' chests.

This computer-generated analysis predicted the results about how many of them would die within five years.

The predictions accuracy was astonishingly close to 69%, which is indeed a great milestone in the development of AI.

"Predicting the future of a patient is useful because it may enable doctors to tailor treatments to the individual," says lead author Dr Luke Oakden-Rayner, a radiologist and PhD student with the University of Adelaide's School of Public Health.

"Instead of focusing on diagnosing diseases, the automated systems can predict medical outcomes in a way that doctors are not trained to do, by incorporating large volumes of data and detecting subtle patterns," Dr Oakden-Rayner says.

Researchers would now take a step forward and attempt to apply the same technique for predicting other important medical conditions.

The future looks pretty hi-tech be it medical field or the I.T.

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