An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot
An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from the same trace.
The results were presented at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Munich and reported by the Guardian on Monday. The trial covered 67,000 patients in the United States.
The tool identified up to 81% of heart failure cases and up to 90% of valve disease cases, despite using a test that was not originally designed to detect either condition.
“Superhuman AI” is the phrase Dr Ahmed El-Medany, a British Heart Foundation clinical research fellow at Imperial, used to describe the system.
The claim is relatively specific: the signal is present in the recording, but clinicians cannot reliably extract it from the ECG...
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