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A wearable ultrasound patch for continuous heart imaging

A new ultrasound patch can image the heart while being worn, even when the wearer is moving during strenuous exercise. A customized model that uses a technique of artificial intelligence called deep learning then processes the images to extract important measures of cardiac performance.

This is a summary of: Hu, H. et al. A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager. Nature 613, 667–675 (2023).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04535-1

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