Groundbreaking pre-eclampsia research could save tens of thousands of lives

Research led by University College Dublin could save tens of thousands of lives using machine learning for new pre-eclampsia diagnosis

With 140 million births each year, more than 11 million women and their babies could be affected by pre-eclampsia globally. Difficult to diagnose and with complex origins, pre-eclampsia has a long-term impact on the health of mothers and their children. The condition claims the lives of 70,000 expectant mothers and 500,000 babies every year worldwide.

To tackle this public health challenge, Professor Patricia Maguire, Professor Fionnuala Ní Áinle and Professor Mary Higgins and their team at University College Dublin (UCD) launched AI_PREMie: an innovative research initiative that could transform pre-eclampsia diagnosis.

It is designed to support clinicians to make effective and efficient clinical diagnosis of suspected pre-eclampsia through intelligent and timely risk stratification of patients’ clinical and blood biomarker data, using an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. This helps improve health outcomes for women and infants.

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