{"id":233555,"date":"2026-03-18T02:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/using-ai-to-improve-standard-of-care-cardiac-imaging"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:31:30","slug":"using-ai-to-improve-standard-of-care-cardiac-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/using-ai-to-improve-standard-of-care-cardiac-imaging","title":{"rendered":"Using AI to improve standard-of-care cardiac imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-ai-to-improve-standard-of-care-cardiac-imaging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority. An echocardiogram, or cardiac ultrasound, is one of the most commonly used imaging tools employed by physicians to diagnose a variety of heart diseases and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Most standard echocardiograms provide two-dimensional visual images (2D) of the three-dimensional (3D) cardiac anatomy. These echocardiograms often capture hundreds of 2D slices or views of a beating heart that can enable physicians to make clinical assessments about the function and structure of the heart.<\/p>\n<p>To improve diagnostic accuracy of cardiac conditions, researchers from UC San Francisco set out to determine whether deep neural networks (DNNs), a type of AI algorithm, could be re-designed to better capture complex 3D anatomy and physiology from multiple imaging views simultaneously. They developed a new \u201cmultiview\u201d DNN structure\u2014or architecture\u2014to enable it to draw information from <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-05-auxiliary-chd-diagnostic-based-multi.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">multiple imaging views<\/a> at once, rather than the current approach of using only a single view. They then trained demonstration DNNs using this architecture to detect disease states for three cardiovascular conditions: left and right ventricular abnormalities, diastolic dysfunction, and valvular regurgitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority. An echocardiogram, or cardiac ultrasound, is one of the most commonly used imaging tools employed by physicians to diagnose a variety of heart diseases and conditions. Most standard echocardiograms provide two-dimensional visual images (2D) of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}