(Daily Mail) – Algorithms similar to those employed by Netflix and Spotify to customize services are now better than human doctors at spotting who will die or have a heart attack. Machine learning was used to train LogitBoost, which its developers say can predict death or heart attacks with 90 percent accuracy. It was programmed to use 85 variables to calculate the risk to the health of the 950 patients that it was fed
scans and data from. Patients complaining of chest pain were subjected to a host of scans and tests before being treated by traditional methods. Their data was later used to train the algorithm. It ‘learned’ the risks and, during the six-year follow-up, had a 90 percent success rate at predicting 24 heart attacks and 49 deaths from any cause. READ MORE
