Artificial Intelligence Diagnoses Heart Murmurs

The neural network AI algorithm was trained on thousands of heart sound recordings. The AI algorithm was then tested on an independent dataset of pediatric heart sounds and compared to gold-standard echocardiogram imagery. Five pediatric cardiologists also listened to the heart sound recordings and independently made a determination whether a recording contained a murmur. This advancement will help narrow the clinical skill gap between the 27,000 cardiologists in the U.S. – the experts at murmur detection – and the 3.8 million other clinicians who are less experienced in the identification of heart murmurs through a stethoscope.

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AI Algorithm Outperformed Majority of Cardiologists in Detection of Heart Murmurs in Clinical Study