AI can now spot dangerous soft plaque in your coronary arteries before it causes a heart attack. Using CT scans, the technology measures lipid-rich plaque in cubic millimeters and catches the unstable kind that traditional imaging misses.
AI allows us to see literally plaque we could not see before. It literally can extract data and make it visible to us what otherwise was invisible. The AI really does unbelievable things, and the big advent of AI does 3 amazing things that we could not do before, even with CT. As much as I love CT, what we call CT angiography, in other words, using the CT machine to take an angiogram of the heart noninvasively, AI allows us to see literally plaque we could not see before. We call it radiomics. It, it literally can extract data and make it visible to us what otherwise was invisible. So it can literally see plaque we can't see. And by the way, the plaque that we— that was really difficult to see before is actually the lava, active growing lipid soft plaque. So incredible for that. Number 2, precisely quantify it so we can know exactly how many cubic millimeters of plaque you have in your whole heart.
