New Artificial Intelligence Tools Detect Heart Disease Early

Detecting heart disease early is one of the key steps in treating the condition. But until now, doctors have had difficulty differentiating cardiovascular conditions through ultrasounds alone. In February 2022, scientists at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai announced the creation of artificial intelligence that can not only detect heart disease early, but can tell the difference between conditions that look almost similar to the naked eye. More than half of U.S. adults suffer with some form of heart disease, according to an American Heart Association report in 2019. There are several causes of heart disease, including obesity, smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise, hypertension and genetics.