The article reported in the newspaper ‘Il Messaggero’ on 20 June 2022 highlights the contribution of the research team, led by Professor Eros Pasero, in the recognition of heart disease through the use of artificial intelligence.

Being able to understand from an electrocardiogram the life expectancy of a patient when the rare Brugada heart syndrome was diagnosed, using artificial intelligence. This syndrome is a disturbance of the electrical activity of the heart that can cause even fatal episodes of ventricular arrhythmia, and is known to be a major cause of sudden and, unfortunately, unpredictable cardiac death. Especially young people die without any particular symptoms. The goal of the research group of the Polytechnic of Turin, coordinated by Eros Pasero, professor of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, is to make available to cardiologists the tools of artificial intelligence (Ia) to extract information hidden in electrocardiograms.

AI is the new technological frontier in many fields, in medicine it is taking on a role of great value. Because?
“The role of AI is to see things you can’t see. Our culture leads us to think about what we do, but sometimes the information is within the information itself, so the success of the application of AI in medicine, in our case, is to be able to diagnose and find pathologies within submerged data ».

How did the collaboration between a group of researchers in electronics of the Polytechnic of Turin and cardiologists born?
«In 2015, I invented the first wrist electrocardiograph, when there was still no Apple Watch, but unfortunately the university was not able to transfer this technology to the Italian industry, otherwise we would have arrived before Apple. But now we have found an Italian partner and we will make a wrist electrocardiograph. This is to tell you that for many years, my research group has been interested in applications in the cardiology field. Professor Fiorenzo Gaita, an internationally renowned arrhythmologist, was looking for an AI expert because he wanted to find unknowns in the diagnosis of patients with Brugada syndrome, who die suddenly without explanation. My name was mentioned, so the project began ».

Copyright ‘Il Messaggero’. The full article is available at the following link: https://www.ilmessaggero.it/salute/prevenzione/problemi_al_cuore_patologie_mortali_algoritmo_politecnico_di_torino_eros_pasero-6763924.html