Cardiovascular Ultrasound

This channel includes news and new technology innovations about cardiovascular ultrasounds. Cardiovascular ultrasounds, or echocardiograms, use ultrasound imaging to provide a picture of the heart.

New ASE Guideline Outlines Acquisition of Essential Transesophaegal Echo Images in Structural Heart Prior to Intervention
January 17, 2022 – As the increasing number of structural heart interventions are assisted by real-time imaging guidance, interventional echocardiography is being recognized as a subspecialty ...
Philips Introduces New Transducer Technology, AI-driven Automated Measurements and Remote Access
December 9, 2021 – Philips Healthcare expanded its cardiac ultrasound portfolio with new imaging tools and features to increase diagnostic confidence and workflow efficiency. During its participation ...
VIDEO: New Echo Technology to Aid Structural Heart Interventions
Examples of TrueView and GlassView 3D cardiac ultrasound visualization and artificial intelligence (AI) assisted automated measurements on the Philips Healthcare Epiq CV version 9.0 echo system. The ...
Caption Health and Ultromics Partner to Wide Availability of AI-enabled Cardiac Ultrasound Tools
November 9, 2021 — Caption Health and Ultromics, developers of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve cardiac ultrasound diagnostics, announced a strategic partnership to accelerate cardiovascular ...

The ASE released new guidelines for pre-procedural structural heart echo imaging assessments. This image showing the aortic and mitral valves in life-like TrueView rendering is from a Philips Epiq CV version 9.0 system.

News | Structural Heart

New ASE Guideline Outlines Acquisition of Essential Transesophaegal Echo Images in Structural Heart Prior to Intervention

January 17, 2022 – As the increasing number of structural heart interventions are assisted by real-time imaging guidance ...

January 17, 2022

The new X5-1c transducer uses Philips' nSIGHT Plus is a proprietary imaging architecture that touches all aspects of image acquisition and processing, creating images with optimal resolution down to the pixel level, in contrast with conventional systems that form the image line by line. #EuroEcho #EuroEcho21

News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Philips Introduces New Transducer Technology, AI-driven Automated Measurements and Remote Access

December 9, 2021 – Philips Healthcare expanded its cardiac ultrasound portfolio with new imaging tools and features to ...

December 09, 2021

Dia's artificial intelligence automation or point-of-care cardiac ultrasound on display at the 2021 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Mount Sinai Study Validates DiA Cardiac Ultrasound AI Algorithm and Finds it Comparable to Cardiac MRI

December 2, 2021 — Artificial intelligence (AI) vendor DiA Imaging Analysis was featured in a recent study presented by ...

December 02, 2021

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Case Study | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Pass-Through Status and New Procedure Codes Are a Boon for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Procedures

As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, pass-through payment status for LUMASON® (sulfur hexafluoride ...

May 29, 2019

The GE Healthcare Vsan Air wireless transducer point-of-care-ultrasound system will be used in combination with UltraSight artificial intelligence technology to monitor an astronaut's heart during Rakia space mission. The research will be used to determine the possible side effects of long-duration maned flights to Mars.

News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

AI Enabled Wireless Cardiac Point-of-Care-Ultrasound Will be Used by Astronauts in Space

October 4, 2021 – UltraSight, a digital health company developing artificial intelligence (AI) enabled cardiac imaging ...

October 04, 2021

Test selection should be a shared decision between patient and physician rather than directed by insurers’ test substitution policies, according to a statement published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.[1] The statement summarizes the proceedings of a recent summit convened by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), leadership of the American College of Cardiology Imaging Council, American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

News | Cardiac Imaging

Cardiovascular Imaging Organizations Denounce Test Substitution by Insurance Companies

September 22, 2021 — Test selection should be a shared decision between patient and physician rather than directed by ...

September 22, 2021

Us2.ai has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its artificial intelligence (AI) Us2.v1 software, a completely automated decision support tool for echocardiography.

News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

FDA Clears Fully Automated Cardiac Ultrasound Solution to Measure 2D and Doppler

September 14, 2021 – Us2.ai, a Singapore-based medtech firm backed by Sequoia India and EDBI, has received U.S. Food and ...

September 14, 2021

An example of artificial intelligence on the GE Healthcare Vivid E95 system shown at ASE 2019 where the AI automatically pulls in an exam, identifies the left ventricle and myocardial boards and then calculates all the strain measurements in less than 10 seconds. While AI automation can greatly speed workflow, there are questions about the accuracy of AI for the next step in making diagnoses. #ASE #ASE21 #ASE2021 #AI

Feature | Artificial Intelligence | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Challenges to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Ultrasound

Artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in all areas of medicine and was the topic of several advanced technology ...

September 08, 2021

Videos | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)

VIDEO: Example of Epsilon Strain Imaging Deep Integration With Siemens CVIS

One of the trends in cardiovascular information system (CVIS) and radiology PACS at the Healthcare Information ...

August 31, 2021

Siemens now seamlessly integrates Epsilon Imaging's strain echo software.

Webinar | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

WEBINAR: Echocardiographic Strain Assessment in a Contemporary Cardiology Practice

This educational webinar is focused on the value echocardiographic strain imaging brings to a contemporary cardiology ...

August 27, 2021

An example at HIMSS of deeper third-party software integration in enterprise imaging platforms was Siemens Healthcare showing a new, deep integration with echocardiography strain imaging analysis provider Epsilon Imaging. The integration eliminates the need for a separate login and the Epsilon software is now just a tool option available in the syngo system and it carries over data and images directly into the echo report.

Feature | Information Technology | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Advances in PACS and Cardiology Information Systems at HIMSS 2021

Taking advantage of new technology advances, several radiology PACS, enterprise imaging and cardiovascular information ...

August 20, 2021

Videos | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

VIDEO: Examples of Dynamic Blood Flow Imaging in Cardiac Ultrasound

A new ultrasound imaging technology that may offer novel ways to diagnose and better understand cardiac diseases using ...

August 17, 2021

A comparison of color-flow Doppler cardiac ultrasound showing blood flow, and blood speckle tracking revealing a more detailed and complex understanding of the low. It shows the formation of a vortex that may play a role in future assessments for the efficiency of flow in the heart and vessels. #ASE21 #ASE2021 #Vectorflowimaging

Feature | Cardiac Imaging | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Development of Echo Blood Flow Dynamics Imaging

In the past several years, a few cardiac ultrasound vendors have developed new ways to image the intricate flow of ...

August 17, 2021