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A year-old man who suffered bilateral brainstem damage after a stroke was given low scores by both doctors and AI. He recovered fully in less than a year.
The AI system, developed after eight years of research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and PLA General Hospital in Beijing, has achieved nearly 90 per cent accuracy on prognostic assessments, according to the researchers. Some of their results were released in a research paper published last month in the peer-reviewed journal eLife. Dr Song Ming, associate researcher with the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and first author of the study, said their system was different from other AI methods used in the diagnosis of diseases such as cancer.
Patients are assessed using a brain scan with functional magnetic resonance imaging, a technology that charts brain activity by measuring tiny changes in blood flow. The neural activities are too numerous and sophisticated to be directly visible to doctors but the AI system, equipped with machine-learning algorithms, is able to scrutinise these changing details and discover previously unknown patterns from past cases. For instance, the machine can look into regions in charge of different functions — including motion control, verbal capability, hearing and vision — to see how they interact with one another after suffering physical damage.
Some patients might have an active mind, but their communication with the outside world is temporarily blocked. Their state is more likely to be misjudged by conventional evaluation methods, which are usually based on operationally defined behavioural responses to specific sensory stimulation. It is just a tool to help doctors and families make better decisions. These patients came from all over China, some from places as remote as Xinjiang in the northwest, and many of their relatives had been told their loved one had little hope for recovery. Not all coma patients stay in hospital, Yang said.
Many remain at home, in varying conditions. Some families cannot afford the best medicine or medical equipment, while others devote more time to talking and massaging the patient. These factors also affect the likelihood of recovery. The researchers also found the system worked better on patients in Beijing because it was developed using data mainly collected in the capital.
Yang Tongwei, associate professor of medical ethics at Shandong University in Jinan, said AI would aid decision-making for people facing ethical dilemmas. Skip to main content. Doctors said the coma patients would never wake. AI said they would - and they did. Saturday, 08 September, , 3: Monday, 10 September, , 2: Science Storm clouds continue to brew over Sky River rain-making project 12 Dec Letters Are gene-edited babies safe from HIV mutations?
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