This AI Helps Doctors Read Cardiac MRI Scans 186 Times Faster

A recent study discovers a new artificial intelligence (AI) can help remove human errors relating to misreading MRI scans. The technology also significantly improves the reading time.

In Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, the research points out that a human doctor often spends around 13 minutes reading cardiac MRI scans and analyzing patients’ heart function. However, with this new AI, the reading time will reduce to only 4 seconds.

According to the research author Charlotte Manisty:

While conducting this research in the UK, she realized that the number of cardiac MRI scans per year hits over 150,000.

With a series of advantages such as time-saving and high accuracy, the AI is believed to help doctors save about 54 days per year to read cardiac MRI scans at all health centers in the UK. In addition, the most important advantage is that the technology can eliminate human errors when they read complicated scans. Manisty noted:

Along with other scientists, Manisty gathered the cardiac MRI scans’ results of about 600 patients to train a machine learning (ML) neural network AI how to read and analyze scans.

In the next step, they tested the accuracy of this AI compared to a trainee and an expert on 110 patient cases of many different centers.

The researchers pointed out in their findings that the accuracy of this AI could be similar to that of human doctors, and more notably, the AI was clearly capable of showing the results much faster.