An MRI scan of a heart Chris Baraniuk
In a dimly lit room full of computers at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, doctors pore over images of people’s hearts. Until recently, medical staff here had to interpret the blotchy on-screen images purely by sight. Now artificial intelligence is helping to explain what they are looking at.
, a consultant cardiologist at St Bartholomew’s, analyses an MRI scan of a struggling heart and points to blue smudges over one area of muscle. The image on her screen has been coloured in by AI. A swathe of blue…
