A newly developed AI system may help doctors detect and treat cardiovascular diseases more quickly.
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A newly developed AI system may help doctors detect and treat cardiovascular diseases more quickly.

sciencenorway.no: AI can help detect heart diseases more quickly

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can automatically measure the heart's structure – both quickly and accurately (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no)

sciencenorway.no: AI can help detect heart diseases more quickly

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can automatically measure the heart's structure – both quickly and accurately (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no)

By Petter Bjørklund, Communications Officer at SFI Visual Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) may become a helpful tool for detecting and treating cardiovascular diseases, according to Durgesh Kumar Singh's research.

He works at the AI centre SFI Visual Intelligence at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Singh examined how AI can be used to measure the heart's left ventricle – one of the four heart chambers – based on ultrasound images. The images are taken with an ultrasound probe placed on the patient’s chest.

Read the full article on sciencenorway.no

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