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Thealgarithm Detects Heart Attack Scars

Thealgarithm learned to detect patterns and relationships that our eyes just couldn't recognize. The program can then build each patient a survival assessment, which can predict with high accuracy the chances of sudden cardiac death in the next ten years. It was significantly more accurate on every measure than the doctor's it was even validated with data from patients across 60 health centers with different imaging data. If we could predict when events like heart attacks are going to happen, we could be much better prepared to deal with them.

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