Medical AI can now predict survival rates-but it`s not ready to unleash on patients
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Researchers recently produced an algorithm that could guess whether heart patients had lived or died from their condition within a year. By looking at data from a test of the heart`s electrical activity known as an electrocardiogram or ECG, the algorithm successfully predicted patient survival in 85% of cases. But its developers couldn`t explain how the algorithm did this. Its stated purpose was to find previously unknown information that doctors couldn`t see in ECGs.