Artificial intelligence is better than humans at assessing heart ultrasounds, the main test of overall cardiac health, the most rigorous trial yet conducted on the subject found on Wednesday.
An echocardiogram technician performs an echocardiogram on a patient in the intensive care unit at Roseland Community Hospital on December 16, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/ Getty Images/ AFP
"There's a lot of excitement around AI," but rigorous evaluation remains critical, the study's senior author David Ouyang told AFP. The new study, published in the journal Nature, pitted an AI model against sonographers to see who would give the most accurate initial assessment. For the study, nearly 3,500 heart ultrasounds were randomly split between sonographers and the AI model.
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