Mayo Clinic uses AI and Apple Watch to detect weak heart pump
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What you need to know Researchers at the Mayo Clinic used AI and an Apple Watch to detect a weak heart pump. The researchers developed an algorithm that used the signal from an Apple Watch ECG to detect the condition. The study`s accuracy was `as good as or slightly better than a medical treadmill test.` Apple Watch saves lives. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic developed an algorithm that, using the ECG from an Apple Watch, could identify patients with a weak heart pump. In a post on the Mayo Clinic website, researchers announced the results of the study which was also presented at the Heart Rhythm Society conference on Sunday, May 1. Paul Friedman, M.D., chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, said that researchers were able to use AI and the ECG signal from the Apple Watch rather than `an expensive, sophisticated imaging test, such as an echocardiogram, CT scan or MRI.` `Left ventricular dysfunction — a weak heart pump — afflicts...