Taking a selfie may help safeguard your health

Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in many medical fields, notably by facilitating diagnosis. — AFP Relaxnews

A study published on Aug 21 in the European Heart Journal has presented an innovative method for the widespread detection of heart disease.

It suggests that people should provide their doctors with selfies that can be analysed by deep learning machines configured to predict the presence and the particular stage of the disease. This is an apt example of the growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine.