A large, multi-center study presented during the American Society of Echocardiography’s (ASE) 34th Annual Scientific Sessions found that Artificial Intelligence (AI)-guided software can benefit both the field of cardiovascular ultrasound and ultimately its patients. Image courtesy: Getty Images
June 29, 2023 — A large, multi-center study presented during the American Society of Echocardiography’s (ASE) 34th Annual Scientific Sessions found that Artificial Intelligence (AI)-guided software can benefit both the field of cardiovascular ultrasound and ultimately its patients.
The study, “Real-Time Artificial Intelligence Based Guidance of Echocardiographic Imaging: Does Novice Profile Affect Image Quality and Suitability for Diagnostic Interpretation?” was presented by University of Chicago Medicine - U. of C. Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging Fellow Juan Ignacio Cotella, MD. Cotella shared results of the large study which found AI can assist novice nurses and medical residents in acquiring diagnostic-quality echocardiography images.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way echocardiograms are acquired and interpreted. A new study, described in an online AASE 2023 news overview during the American Society of Echocardiography’s (ASE) 34th Annual Scientific Sessions, June 23-26, 2023, in National Harbor, Md., shared how AI-guided software can benefit both the field of cardiovascular ultrasound and ultimately its patients.
The multi-center study compared the quality of echocardiography images acquired by nurses and medical residents. After just 12 hours of training with the AI-guided software, these novice users were able to acquire echocardiography images in 10 standard views with rates of diagnostic quality approaching that of expert sonographers.
The AI-guided software was developed by UltraSight using intuitive visual cues from more than 10,000 echocardiograms and was embedded into a Philips Lumify handheld device. The accuracy of the AI software was then evaluated by five expert readers who were blinded to the imagers’ identities and evaluated for sufficient quality for diagnostic interpretation.
“We found that the AI-guided software allowed novices to acquire images suitable for diagnostic interpretation by an expert reader in the majority of patients,” says one of the study’s lead authors, Roberto M. Lang, MD, an internationally renowned cardiologist and specialist in echocardiography at the University of Chicago Medicine. He added, “These promising findings confirm that AI-guided software could be potentially useful in teaching novice medical professionals and assessing cardiac function in settings where services of trained echocardiography laboratories are not available.”
Nearly 400 abstract poster presentations highlighting continuing innovations in the cardiovascular ultrasound field were featured during ASE 2023. The organization announced that ASE 2024 will be held June 14-17 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR.
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