Fierce Biotech November 30, 2022
Standard healthcare guidelines suggest that adults be regularly screened for the likelihood that they’ll develop atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease—which can lead to heart attack, stroke and other potentially fatal conditions—within 10 years.
The current go-to method to calculate that risk, developed by the American College of Cardiology, requires doctors to gather and analyze a variety of health information, including age, sex, race, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diabetes history and more. But an alternative method presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting in Chicago this week aims to churn out 10-year heart disease risk scores using only a basic chest X-ray.
The new approach relies on deep learning artificial intelligence technology. Like the ACC’s risk calculator,...
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