ANALYSING patients’ ‘selfies’ could help doctors diagnose heart problems. Scientists at the National Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases in China wrote software to identify people with heart disease by looking for facial features linked to cardiac problems such as deposits of cholesterol around the eyelids.
Photos of 6,000 people who were being tested for heart problems were combined with heart X-rays and lifestyle information to create an algorithm.
Tests found the algorithm was able to spot 80 per cent of cases – making it better than current techniques used to predict heart disease, reported the European Heart Journal earlier this year.
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