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AI detects heart failure and valve disease from a standard ECG in under two seconds

Led the AI ECG analysis

An AI tool developed at Imperial College London can spot heart failure and heart valve disease from a standard electrocardiogram (ECG), a test that has been in clinical use for a century. In a trial of 67,000 US patients, it flagged up to 81 percent of heart failure cases and 90 percent of valve disease cases — in under two seconds.

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"These results suggest there is potentially far more information hidden within a routine ECG than we can recognize by looking at it ourselves."

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"The important next questions are how it performs in NHS patients and whether the same information can be captured using much simpler portable ECG devices."

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