{"id":173278,"date":"2023-10-02T03:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ai-can-predict-future-heart-attacks-by-analyzing-ct-scans"},"modified":"2023-10-02T03:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:23:46","slug":"ai-can-predict-future-heart-attacks-by-analyzing-ct-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ai-can-predict-future-heart-attacks-by-analyzing-ct-scans","title":{"rendered":"AI Can Predict Future Heart Attacks By Analyzing CT Scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-can-predict-future-heart-attacks-by-analyzing-ct-scans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence platform developed by an Israeli startup can reveal whether a patient is at risk of a heart attack by analyzing their routine chest CT scans.<\/p>\n<p>Results from a new study testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanox.vision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nanox. AI<\/a>\u2019s HealthCCSng algorithm on such scans found that 58 percent of patients unknowingly had moderate to severe levels of coronary artery calcium (CAC) or plaque.<\/p>\n<p>CAC is the strongest predictor of future cardiac events, and measuring it typically subjects patients to an additional costly scan that is not normally covered by insurance companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial intelligence platform developed by an Israeli startup can reveal whether a patient is at risk of a heart attack by analyzing their routine chest CT scans. Results from a new study testing Nanox. AI\u2019s HealthCCSng algorithm on such scans found that 58 percent of patients unknowingly had moderate to severe levels of coronary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}