New breakthrough! A research team in Xinjiang has successfully identified heart attacks and artery dissections with a drop of blood, with an accuracy rate of over 94%.

Sudden chest pain, a matter of life and death. The symptoms of heart attack and aortic dissection are similar, but the treatments are completely opposite. A heart attack requires thrombolysis, while thrombolysis in aortic dissection can lead to severe bleeding. This was once a difficult decision for doctors, but now there is hope that a research team from Xinjiang can provide the correct answer with just a drop of blood. Yang Yining, the director of the People's Hospital of the Autonomous Region, explained that traditional diagnostic methods such as enhanced CT scans are accurate but time-consuming and expensive, making them difficult to use in grassroots settings or ambulances. In their research, Yang Yining's team, in collaboration with Professor Lu Xiaoyi's team from Xinjiang University, focused on the molecular differences in blood. By combining spectroscopic techniques with their self-developed AI algorithm, they successfully automatically identified key features from complex spectroscopic signals, achieving efficient differentiation between heart attacks and aortic dissections. This groundbreaking research was recently published in the top international journal "Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence." Through clinical sample validation, the new technology achieved an accuracy rate of 94.06% and a specificity rate of 97.03% in identifying non-heart attack cases. The entire testing process only requires about a drop of blood, takes 5-10 minutes, and the cost of a single test is far lower than that of an enhanced CT scan.