AI doesn’t miss a beat.
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.
Heart disease is deadly, but traditional testing is expensive and time-consuming! What’s new?
Enter Pierre Elias and team at Columbia University. They aimed to detect heart disease from a simple rhythm test. They trained their AI called “EchoNext” using over a million heart scans and recordings!
And? EchoNext showed high diagnostic accuracy across hospitals and diverse patients. In testing, it outperformed human doctors!
EchoNext scored seventy-seven percent accuracy, well above the sixty-four percent of cardiologists. It even alerted doctors to hidden heart problems in patients without prior complications.
Turns out, AI might not just be smart — it might save your heart!
That’s really a pulse-pounding breakthrough!
Reference: Poterucha, T.J., Jing, L., Ricart, R.P. et al. Detecting structural heart disease from electrocardiograms using AI. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09227-0