If you've ever experienced chest pain, irregular heartbeats, or if your doctor has detected

a telltale-wishing sound of a heart murmur, you may have undergone an echocardiogram to check

for or rule out heart issues. The echocardiogram, which is an ultrasound of the heart, provides

detailed images of its structures and blood flow.

With advancements in AI, the procedure is now easier to perform, more accessible to those in need,

and more accurate in diagnosis.

Two leaders working to merge the worlds of AI and cardiac ultrasound will join us today.

Dr. Paul Friedman is a cardiac electrophysiologist

and the chair of the Department of Cardiology at Mayo Clinic. In a trial we have done in

collaboration with ultrasound, we've found that a college student with a few hours of guidance

can learn to follow those probes and acquire diagnostic quality images to answer critical questions.

Is the heart pump normal in its strength? Are the valves normal?

Also with us is Daviti Vortman. He's the CEO of Ultrasite. That's a company applying

AI learning to cardiac ultrasounds. This is the future.

Diagnostic tools like ultrasound that are low cost and can be used by journalists are going to be future of health care and disease detection.

That's ahead on this episode of Tomorrow's Cure, a podcast from Mayo Clinic that brings the future

of medicine to the present.

I'm Kathy Wurzer. Thanks for being with us.

Dr. Friedman, Mr. Vortman, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you for having me. Thank you, Kathy. It's a pleasure.

We appreciate your time. Thank you so much. We should tell you

that Mail Clinic is now an investor in Ultracite. Both are jointly developing algorithms to

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