AI caught a hidden problem in one patient's heart. Can it work for others?
Peter Maercklein poses for a portrait near his home in rural Olmsted County, Minn. An artificial intelligence-enabled tool developed by Mayo Clinic picked up on his atrial fibrillation. Joseph Ahlquist for STAT Somewhere in Peter Maercklein’s heartbeat was an abnormality no one could find. He survived a stroke 15 years ago, but doctors never saw anything alarming on follow-up electrocardiograms. Then, one day last fall, an artificial intelligence algorithm read his EKGs and spotted something else: a ripple in the calm that indicated an elevated risk of atrial fibrillation....
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