A study claimed that machine learning, modern bedrock of artificial intelligence, could predict death or heart attack with more than 90 per cent accuracy.The study was presented at The International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT (ICNC) 2019.Machine learning is used every day. Google's search engine, face recognition on smartphones, self-driving cars, Netflix and Spotify recommendation systems -- all use machine learning algorithms to adapt to the individual user.By repeatedly analysing 85 variables in 950 patients with known six-year outcomes, an algorithm 'learned' how imaging data interacts. It then identified patterns correlating the variables to death and heart attack with more than 90 per cent accuracy.Study author, Dr Luis Eduardo Juarez-Orozco of the Turku PET Centre, Finland said, "These advances are far beyond what has been done in medicine, where we need to be cautious about how we evaluate risk and outcomes. We have the data but we are not using it to its .
