{"slug": "superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease-in-less-than-2-seconds", "title": "‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds", "summary": "Doctors have developed a 'superhuman' AI tool that can spot heart disease in less than two seconds, trained on millions of routine electrocardiograms (ECGs) to extract more information than the human eye can see. The technology, reported by The Guardian, could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment.", "body_md": "# ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds\n\nBy Andrew Gregory Health editor in MunichSource:\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment\n\nDoctors have developed a “superhuman” AI tool that can spot heart disease in less than two seconds.\n\nThe 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.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/31/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease-in-less-than-2-seconds", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease-in-less-than-2-second-0wf8", "published_at": "2026-08-31 16:00:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-31 16:52:08.114769+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["The Guardian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease-in-less-than-2-seconds", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease-in-less-than-2-seconds.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease-in-less-than-2-seconds.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease-in-less-than-2-seconds.jsonld"}}