AI Outperforms Cardiologists in Detecting Heart Disease…

AI Outperforms Cardiologists in Detecting Heart Disease from Heart Scans Category: Cardiology | Digital Health | AI in Medicine Date: 2025–2026 Artificial intelligence has been making steady inroads into medicine, but a landmark study has moved it from promising tool to clinical contender. Researchers trained an AI model called EchoNext on over one million heart scans, and the results were remarkable: the AI outperformed experienced cardiologists in detecting heart disease from electrocardiograms (ECGs). This development is poised to reshape how cardiac screening is delivered, especially in regions where specialist access is limited. EchoNext was trained on a dataset of more than one million echocardiograms and ECGs. When tested against board-cer