Artificial Intelligence outperforms human cardiologists in heart scans - SPOKEN by YOU

Rima Arnaout, an assistant professor, and cardiologist at UC San Francisco, is working on her research in computational medicine; she published a new study in the journal Digital Medicine. In the study, Arnaout and her colleagues used deep learning, specifically something called a convolutional neural network (CNN), to train an Artificial Intelligence system that can classify echocardiograms. The system is created to analyze heart scan, that is just a simple task. The system is to outperform the human cardiologists but not to replace them. It was a limited task, she notes, just the first step in what a cardiologist does when evaluating an echocardiogram (the image produced by bouncing sound waves off the heart).