A new study published in JAMA led by Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers finds that an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tool can interpret echocardiograms with a high degree of accuracy in just a few minutes.

“Echocardiography is a cornerstone of cardiovascular care, but it requires a tremendous amount of clinical time from highly skilled readers to review these studies,” says Rohan Khera, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine) at YSM and of biostatistics (health informatics) at Yale School of Public Health.

Khera is the paper’s senior author and director of the Cardiovascular Data Science Lab (CarDS). “We wanted to develop a technology that can assist these very busy echocardiographers to help improve accuracy and accelerate their workflow.”