Automated artificial-intelligence based, preliminary cardiac diagnostics decision support tool to the medical practitioner.

A feasibility study to assess Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm performance in identifying heart murmurs in the general echocardiography referred patient’s population.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12619000366156

Enrollment

118

Registered

2019-03-07

Start date

2019-03-15

Completion date

2022-03-12

Last updated

2021-08-17

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

MedAl Cardiology is a software tool that will enable health care professionals to diagnose various heart conditions in real time using Artificial Intelligence (AI). It would provide a diagnosis of heart functioning by analysing heart sounds recordings. The MedAI Cardiology algorithm will classify the patient status as “Normal” or “Abnormal” and will provide in-depth insights about various heart conditions. An automated analysis capability will support medical practitioners in deciding whether or not to refer the patient for further investigation.

Interventions

Participants will be exposed to auscultation done with a digital stethoscope. The patient's heart sounds audio will be recorded and analysed remotely. An Echocardiography will follow, which is done as a part of the patient's routine investigation. We estimate that the auscultation will not add to the patient visit at the Echocardiography laboratory more than 5-10 minutes. An Echocardiograph which is done as part of the patient routine investigation and done in accordance to standard of care will follow and is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes. This will conclude the participant involvement in the trial. The gathered data would be used to train an Artificial-Intelligence system to identify valvular heart diseases based on auscultation.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

o Patient over the age of 18 years old, who is able to provide written informed consent and verbal consent to participate in this study. o The patient is referred to perform an Echocardiography.

Exclusion criteria

o A patient who is unable to provide written and verbal informed consent. o A female patient who is aware she is pregnant.

Outcome results