Artificial intelligence can use smartwatch data to detect heart disease, a new study says.
AI fed heart sensor data from an Apple Watch accurately detected heart problems like weakened pumping ability, damaged valves or thickened heart muscle, according to findings that will be presented Friday at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in New Orleans.
This is impressive because an Apple Watch contains only a single echocardiogram lead, compared to the 12-lead ECG tests performed in hospitals to assess heart function, researchers noted.
"On its own, a single-lead ECG is limited," senior researcher Dr. Rohan Khera, director of the Cardiovascular Data Science Lab at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, said in a news release. "However, with AI, it becomes powerful enough to screen for important heart conditions."
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