Can AI Answer How Long Will You Live

Artificial Intelligence is credited with some amazing abilities. University of Adelaide researchers are now hoping to add to these abilities by creating a robot equipped with AI that can actually take a look at your organs and let you know how long you will live. Okay, it’s not quite at that stage right now, but it’s only a matter of time.

Early diagnosis of most serious conditions results in timely medical intervention. This has been known to save lives. Predicting the course of a disease can allow doctors to create tailor made treatment processes for a patient. Dr Luke Oakden-Rayner,  PhD student with the University of Adelaide’s School of Public Health is a radiologist who wishes to make this diagnosis device a reality.

The idea is to combine deep learning with an ability to analyse images received in order to predict the outcome of the disease. The study of 48 patients’ chests was undertaken to to predict which patients would die within five years. When the results were compared to human predictions made by clinical doctors there was an accuracy rate of 68%

This science experiment shows that it is possible to predict just how long a person will love based on the medical data accumulated by the robot using Artificial Intelligence.