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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Andrew Gregory Health editor in Munich

‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

Heart monitor screen.
For heart disease, early diagnosis is vital for saving lives. Photograph: alengo/Getty Images

Doctors have developed a “superhuman” AI tool that can spot heart disease in less than two seconds.

The groundbreaking technology has been trained on millions of patients and works by extracting more information from a routine electrocardiogram (ECG) than the human eye can typically see.

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