Cardiovascular Business February 25, 2021
AI models can guide nurses with no prior experience through the process of obtaining 10-view transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) studies, according to new research published in JAMA Cardiology.
“In many clinical settings, echocardiography is unavailable because of a lack of trained personnel,” wrote lead author Akhil Narang, MD, of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues. “In these settings, nonexpert users may perform limited examinations using handheld or portable machines, but quality is nonuniform, with risks for nondiagnostic and misleading imaging.”
To see if AI could improve that ongoing dilemma, Narang et al. turned to software that was developed to “emulate sonographer expertise” by monitoring image quality and providing helpful cues when necessary.
The team trained its...