Artificial Intelligence Empowers Novice Users to Acquire Diagnostic-Quality Echocardiography
Authors' conclusion
AI-based software provides a safe means for novices to perform diagnostic-quality cardiac ultrasounds after a short training period.
Study context
- Population
- Adult patients scheduled for a clinically indicated echocardiogram; exams by nurses without previous ultrasound experience (novices) using artificial intelligence (AI) guidance and by expertspatients who completed the study (mean age 62.6 years, 117 women (48.8%), mean body mass index 26.6 kg/m²)
- Participants
- 240 patients
- Exposure
- Limited cardiac exam by a novice using AI guidance vs by an expert without it
- Outcome
- Sufficient quality of the novice exam to visually analyze the left ventricular size and function, the right ventricle size, and the presence of nontrivial pericardial effusion (evaluated by 5 experienced cardiologists)
Methodological detailsprospective, international, nonrandomized, 2 medical centers, in the United States and France
- Prospective
- International
- Nonrandomized
- 2 medical centers, in the United States and France
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Novice
One hundred percent
exams of sufficient quality
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Secondary outcomes
Cardiac parameters (secondary endpoints included 8 additional cardiac parameters)
- Cardiac parameters assessed in exams conducted by novices and experts were strongly correlated
Original publication
Artificial Intelligence Empowers Novice Users to Acquire Diagnostic-Quality Echocardiography. JACC Adv. Published 22 July 2025. doi:10.
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