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AI Predicts If You Will Die This Year

20-Jan-2018

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Predicts whether someone will die within three months to a year.

Algorithm studied health records from two million patients at two hospitals.

Can help doctors better recommend palliative care.

80 % of Americans want to spend their last days in their own homes but only 20 % do.

Advanced illness can result in increasingly aggressive interventions.

Not fully understand how the deep learning algorithm determined mortality.

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Kenneth Ken Jung

Research Scientist at Stanford University.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Medical research agency that supports scientific studies

Stanford University

Private research university, one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions

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