Early warning systems for natural disasters have undoubtedly saved countless lives. Detectors that monitor signs of impending earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes, among others, provide crucial hours — sometimes days — for us to take evasive action.
What if we could do the same thing for heart attacks? A group of French researchers working with some U.S. colleagues, have designed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that could help do just that, they report in the European Heart Journal.
Cardiac events contribute to over 5 million deaths a year. They often strike like a bolt from the blue — sometimes killing people without warning signs and no known history of heart disease.
To look for hidden patterns that might provide potential heart attack victims a heads up, the researchers first investigated electrocardiograms data from over 240,000 patients. They essentially looked at several million hours of heartbeats.
"By analyzing their electrical signal for ...
