New AI method aids heart MRI scans

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A novel artificial intelligence method for analysing heart MRI scans could save valuable NHS time and resources, as well as improve overall care for patients.

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Researchers from the Universities of East Anglia (UEA), Sheffield and Leeds developed the computer model that utilises AI to examine heart images from MRI scans in a specific view known as the four-chamber plane.

“The AI model precisely determined the size and function of the heart's chambers and demonstrated outcomes comparable to those acquired by doctors manually, but much quicker,” lead researcher Dr Pankaj Garg, of UEA’s Norwich Medical School and a consultant cardiologist at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, said in a statement.

“Unlike a standard manual MRI analysis, which can take up to 45 minutes or more, the new AI model takes just a few seconds.”

The retrospective observational study consisted of data from 814 patients from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which was then used to train the AI model.

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