AI may predict heart disease from mammogram, age

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could predict the risk of heart disease in women by analysing their mammogram and age, without depending on an extensive medical history.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Described in a paper in the journal ‘Heart’, the AI tool was trained and validated using routine mammograms from over 49,000 women in the state of Victoria, Australia, obtained from hospital and death records.

One of the authors of the paper, Clare Arnott, an associate professor and the global director of the Cardiovascular Program at The George Institute, emphasised the need for new methods to identify women at risk for cardiovascular disease to improve screening.