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Novel Microsoft-Apollo AI model to predict heart disease risk for Indians
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Aug, 2018
In a novel effort to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD)
among the Indian population, Microsoft India and Apollo Hospitals on
Friday launched the first-ever Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered
heart disease risk score API (application programme interface).
Part
of Microsoft's "AI Network for Healthcare" initiative, it will help
doctors across the Apollo network of hospitals leverage the AI-powered
API to predict risk of CVD and drive preventive cardiac care across the
country.
Nearly three million heart attacks happen in India every
year and 30 million Indians suffer from coronary diseases. However,
even with various heart disease risk models available worldwide, doctors
and cardiologists are unable to identify the probability of CVD in
Indians.
"The AI-based models available worldwide were formed
decades ago and are based on the western population. Our new API score
is based on the data of 4,000 Indians shared by Apollo Hospitals and can
easily identify the level of risk each patient has," Anil Bhansali,
Managing Director, Microsoft India (R&D), told IANS.
"We come
in as a technology partner or expert in the AI domain, where we
collaborate with healthcare providers and doctors to integrate data to
help build the AI model," Bhansali added.
Built on Microsoft's
Cloud computing platform Azure, the new AI-based heart risk score helps
gauge a patient's risk for heart disease and provides rich insights to
doctors on treatment plans and early diagnosis.
The API score
considers 21 risk factors including lifestyle attributes such as diet,
tobacco and smoking preferences and physical activity as well as
psychological stress and anxiety as reflected via rate of respiration,
hypertension and systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
"The
score categorises risk into high, moderate and minimal and also provides
insights on the top modifiable risk contributors, thereby assisting
physicians to consult patients in a more holistic way, while providing
insights to patients for lifestyle modification and timely
interventions," Bhansali elaborated.
When a patient goes for a
cardio health check, the doctor can build up a more accurate
cardio-vascular health profile of the patient based on Machine Learning
(ML) of all their previous patient data.
AI can, in turn, predict
future coronary ailments the patient might experience in the next 10 to
20 years based on these multiple factors.
"This heart risk score
for Indian populace is a true example of how precision healthcare can
accelerate prevention of cardio-vascular disease and reduce disease
burden," Bhansali noted.
According to Sangita Reddy, Joint
Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals, the partnership is aimed at
designing new tools and equip doctors in the fight against
non-communicable diseases.
"The amalgamation of AI and ML with
the global expertise of our doctors will help prevent heart disease,
save lives and ensure those with heart disease can make informed choices
on their health," Reddy said in a statement.
Besides Apollo, Microsoft is also planning to extend the AI model to other healthcare providers.
"While
we are currently working with Apollo, we are also in the process of
identifying partners where we can actually try this API score," Bhansali
told IANS.
"In the last couple of years we have been working on
how Cloud technology, particularly AI, can help in reducing the overall
disease burden. Our first step towards this, as part of the healthcare
partnership, is developing the cardiac risk score for Indian
population," Bhansali added.
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