We’re going to be seeing more AI tools in medicine as it is introduced into further areas of medical practice. There’ll be none more important than that devised by Sheffield University scientists to speed up the diagnosis of heart disease. Astonishingly, they’ve got it down to just one minute.
To assess a patient’s heart function, doctors typically use MRI heart scans to give information on how the heart is pumping so diagnosis can be made, and treatments started or adjusted.
However, the current process for assessing these results is labour intensive and time consuming.
