Archive · 2 Sep 2025
AI-Powered Stethoscope Detects Heart Issues in Seconds
Imagine a high-tech stethoscope that uses AI to listen to your heart!
This new tool can quickly find heart problems like heart failure in about 15 seconds.
It combines listening to your heartbeat with a quick heart tracing, sending the data to a computer.
The AI analyzes the data to look for problems that a doctor might miss.
The aim is to catch heart issues early so that doctors can start treatment sooner and people can live longer, healthier lives.
An AI-powered stethoscope can detect heart conditions in around 15 seconds.
The device can identify heart failure, valve disease, and abnormal rhythms.
Developed by UK researchers with British Heart Foundation funding.
It combines traditional listening with a built-in ECG.
The AI analyzes subtle heart changes for early detection.
- Who
- Researchers from Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with British Heart Foundation and NIHR funding.
- What
- An AI-powered stethoscope that detects heart conditions.
- When
- Presented at the European Society of Cardiology annual congress.
- Where
- Developed in the UK.
- Why
- To enable early diagnosis of heart conditions.
- Device Developer
- UK doctors, hardware by Eko Health
- Conditions Detected
- Heart failure, valve disease, abnormal rhythms
- Detection Time
- Approximately 15 seconds
- Key Feature
- Combines stethoscope and ECG
- Device Type
- AI-powered stethoscope
