Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon be used to help save the lives of cardiac patients by enabling doctors find the correct treatment.
While subcutaneous or under-skin cardiac defibrillators (S-ICDs) can be much more effective than traditional pacemakers, they are not suitable for every patient and can cause harm to a minority.
Mathematicians at the University of Southampton have found a way to use a branch of AI called machine learning. This crunches through huge amounts of heart activity data and finds the patterns that show who could benefit from an S-ICD.
