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Adapting vision–language AI models to cardiology tasks

Vision–language models can be trained to read cardiac ultrasound images with implications for improving clinical workflows, but additional development and validation will be required before such models can replace humans.

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Arnaout, R. Adapting vision–language AI models to cardiology tasks. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-02956-1

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