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Common Imaging Test Uses AI to Help Identify Heart Valve Disease

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The work builds upon research published last year showing that an AI program can detect disease in the hearts mitral valve by analyzing ultrasound images of the heart. By applying AI to echocardiograms, we can help clinicians more easily detect the signs of heart valve disease so that patients get the care they need as soon as possible.

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FDA Grants Clearance for AI-powered Cardiac Imaging Software 

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This clears the way for faster collaboration with other ultrasound systems, so the technology can reach more patients sooner. Weve proven that AI can empower novices to reliably perform echocardiograms, a breakthrough that could reshape how we diagnose and treat heart disease.

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Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

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Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly. Lantheus announced that the U.S.

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Transesophageal echocardiogram

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Echocardiogram is an image of the heart using ultrasound. An ultrasound beam is transmitted into the body using a device known as transducer. Transesophageal echocardiogram or TEE test, is obtained by introducing a special type of transducer, also called a TEE probe, through the throat into the food pipe (esophagus) and stomach.

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Case report and literature review: fetal diagnosis of vascular ring with circumflex right aortic arch and unique aortic arch branching pattern

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

A 33-year-old G4P3 patient underwent fetal echocardiography after obstetric ultrasound showed concern for double aortic arch. Fetal echocardiogram was suspicious for vascular ring with presumptive diagnosis of double aortic arch vs. circumflex right aortic arch.

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Cardiologists train large AI model to assess heart structure, function

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Artificial intelligence experts at Cedars-Sinai and the Smidt Heart Institute created a dataset with more than 1 million echocardiograms, or cardiac ultrasound videos, and their corresponding clinical interpretations.

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Cardiologists Train Large AI Model to Assess Heart Structure, Function

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Cedars-Sinai and Smidt Heart Institute investigators developed a novel foundation model that integrates computer vision interpretation of echocardiogram images with natural language processing to augment cardiologists’ interpretation of echocardiograms. Image by Getty.