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Original post: Newswise - Drug and Drug Abuse Could EKGs Help Doctors Use AI to Detect Pulmonary Embolisms?
Pulmonary embolisms are dangerous, lung-clogging blot clots. In a pilot study, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can detect signs of these clots in electrocardiograms (EKGs), a finding which may one day help doctors with screening.