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by csdvrx
1038 days ago
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> Phenomenal, you know that you have a risk of left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Now what? What's the next step? Where are you going to get the echo or medical professional? You don't understand, because you keep assuming echo or medical professionals will be needed, to keep doing what is now medically relevant. If the same tweaks can be done at the next step (automating readings from obsolete machines, say by recognizing some heart landmarks to align and measure doppler flows purely though software) yes, the end result is still an "intervention" ("take this pill") But if everything leading to that intervention can be optimized, or even large parts of it money will be saved. The current approach is not set in stone: this new approach could help those who have no healthcare professional, can't even pay for the extras (modern EKG, confirmation by echo etc) but can pay for basic EKG + ACEi if needed. These same person which could get nothing in the current approach could at least be better treated |
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Yes, I believe in the laws of physics which state what you are describing is impossible.
> say by recognizing some heart landmarks to align and measure doppler flows purely though software
No amount of AI will change the fact that you cannot derive volumetric information from the electrical rhythms of the heart. You cannot obtain doppler or volumetric flow information from an ECG, you need ultrasound (i.e. an echo).
This model is almost certainly learning that certain ECG waveform changes reflective of other diseases and physiological changes place you at higher risk of LVSD. We've known these relationships from the 1990s, probably earlier.
> The current approach is not set in stone: this new approach could help those who have no healthcare professional, can't even pay for the extras (modern EKG)
If you live in a developed country there is no such thing as modern vs old EKG. I would strongly wager the same holds true in most developing countries as these older machines are unlikely to still be functional.
> (confirmation by echo etc) but can pay for basic EKG + ACEi if needed.
There are multiple causes of LVSD. They have different treatments.