CINCINNATI — Researchers in Ohio are working on a new AI technology they say could save lives. It is said to be able to detect heart attacks and heart disease during regular health checkups for women.

Kelly Cohen had no idea when she had a heart attack.

“My wife noticed these symptoms. She started sweating profusely and had heartburn. That was it,” Cohen said.

His wife called an ambulance and he arrived at the hospital in enough time to save his life.

“After I survived the heart attack, I asked my cardiologist, what else could I have done?” Cohen said. He said: “If we had known you were at risk, we would have put you on a statin and that would have made a huge difference.”

That’s why he says he’s trying to change that.

“Women are not so lucky,” Cohen said. “The symptoms are not as pronounced as in men. I hope that our technology can make a difference and provide women with the opportunities that I have been given.” Told.

Cohen is a co-founder of Genexia Health, a Cincinnati startup that helps develop AI software that can detect heart disease risk during mammography exams.

“Mammogram, same mammogram, image is the same image. What you have is this AI entity, an algorithm that accesses the image, retrieves the information, does a risk assessment, and provides that in the form of a report. ” said Cohen.

He developed it in collaboration with Dino Martis, CEO of Genexia Health.

“By adding this diagnostic to mammography, we are now able to make mammography convenient and routine and proactively identify previously undiagnosed coronary artery disease in women,” Martis said. states.

He said the drug is currently being tested at University Hospitals in the Cleveland area and is seeking FDA approval to make it available free to patients across the country.

“This is new technology and doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world. It’s the first of its kind,” Martis said.

He said he hopes the technology will become ubiquitous in the coming years, allowing people to see early signs of a heart attack before it’s too late.

“You can get additional benefits that can make a big difference in people’s lives,” Cohen says.