Artificial intelligence: Advancing into cardiology

Harvard Health July 20, 2022
Julie Corliss

Can machine learning improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease? It’s too soon to know for certain, but many promising tools are in the works.

If you have a smartphone, the pictures you take with it are automatically enhanced by software that’s been “taught” to make your picture appear sharper and brighter by analyzing thousands and thousands of similar photos. This type of machine learning — a key aspect of artificial intelligence — is similar to what’s happening in cardio­vascular care (see “Understanding artificial intelligence”). But instead of...

Today's Sponsors

Today's Sponsor