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AI early diagnosis could save heart patients

02-Jan-2018

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Cardiologists analyse heartbeat scans incorrectly in one in five cases.

False negatives send patients home with risk of a heart attack.

False positives result in unnecessary and expensive operations.

Artificial intelligence system developed at the John Radcliffe Hospital is more accurate.

It can pick up details in the scans that doctors can't see.

Technology will start to be available to NHS hospitals for free this summer.

Could save the NHS more than £300m a year.

The system is also being commercialised by a start-up company called Optellium.

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NHS

UK National Health Service, publicly funded healthcare system in England

Optellum

Early lung cancer intervention.

Paul Leeson

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Ultromics

AI-based ultrasound diagnostic support tool for coronary artery disease.

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