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Study: AI Can Predict Lifespan of Patients By ‘Looking’ At Organs
www.studyfinds.org ^ | 02 June 2017 | by Ron Rocky

Posted on 06/02/2017 11:55:59 AM PDT by Red Badger

ADELAIDE, Australia — Scientists from the University of Adelaide have created an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can predict a person’s lifespan just by looking at images of their organs.

The research — recently published in the journal Scientific Reports — saw the scientists use an AI program to analyze medical images of 48 patients’ chests, accurately measuring whether or not they’d die in the next five years with a 69 percent accuracy.

Dr. Luke Oakden-Rayner, a PhD student at the university and lead author of the study, says in a school press release that predicting the future of a patient’s health will better allow doctors to work up treatment plans that best suit each patient much faster than by previous methods, as medical practitioners are generally unable to “look inside the body and measure the health of each organ.”

He points to a process the computer undertakes called “deep learning” which allows the machine to accurately read images.

“Although for this study only a small sample of patients was used, our research suggests that the computer has learnt to recognize the complex imaging appearances of diseases, something that requires extensive training for human experts,” he says.

However, researchers were unable to pinpoint what exactly the artificial intelligence was seeing in the images to justify its predictions, the most accurate of which were related to chronic diseases such as emphysema and heart failure.

The next stage of the AI’s life will involve analyzing tens of thousands of patient images.

“Our research opens new avenues for the application of artificial intelligence technology in medical image analysis, and could offer new hope for the early detection of serious illness, requiring specific medical interventions,” says Oakden-Rayner.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
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Scientists have created an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can accurately predict a person’s lifespan just by looking at images of their organs.

1 posted on 06/02/2017 11:55:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Are these postmortem images of the organs?


2 posted on 06/02/2017 12:05:56 PM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHw5ivCs1A


3 posted on 06/02/2017 12:06:01 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: BuffaloJack

LOL!..............Then the AI would have an accuracy of 100%!...............


4 posted on 06/02/2017 12:10:39 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
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To: Red Badger

OK now put some of the lard-asses on a treadmill and see if the prediction goes up.


5 posted on 06/02/2017 12:10:46 PM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Red Badger
I wonder how long it would give me ...


6 posted on 06/02/2017 12:11:43 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: Red Badger

Most people could probably just look at somebody and make an equally accurate prediction.

It’s not rocket surgery.


7 posted on 06/02/2017 12:12:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: Red Badger

Only 48 patients and 69% accuracy? It is a scientific coin toss..?


8 posted on 06/02/2017 12:13:33 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: BlueLancer
Not very long.................
9 posted on 06/02/2017 12:13:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
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To: BlueLancer

thats a mighty big organ you got there


10 posted on 06/02/2017 12:16:49 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: PTBAA

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/gamblers-take-note-the-odds-in-a-coin-flip-arent-quite-5050-145465423/


11 posted on 06/02/2017 12:17:39 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
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To: Red Badger

50% is a random guess, so 19% above that is crap. AI diagnostics isn’t considered useful until it reaches 93% sensitivity.


12 posted on 06/02/2017 12:17:47 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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The problem is getting otherwise healthy people to show you their organs................


13 posted on 06/02/2017 12:18:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
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To: Red Badger

I sent them a picture of my organ. They said the program flashed an “End of Life” message and there was a laughing sound.


14 posted on 06/02/2017 12:21:14 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: BlueLancer
I ❤️ FR! Lol
15 posted on 06/02/2017 12:21:46 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Red Badger

It’s not predicting. It’s using statistics and probability. And it’s not AI. The intelligence is that of the programming team.


16 posted on 06/02/2017 12:26:54 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Red Badger

Did they test it on Anthony’s “wiener”?


17 posted on 06/02/2017 12:33:37 PM PDT by thulldud
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[[Study: AI Can Predict Lifespan of Patients By ‘Looking’ At Organs ]]

Crap- I only own pianos


18 posted on 06/02/2017 12:33:37 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

You know you’re in trouble when you ask how much longer you have . . . and the technician looks at her watch before answering.


19 posted on 06/02/2017 12:33:47 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

Or says, “Don’t buy any green bananas.”......................


20 posted on 06/02/2017 12:35:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
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