{"id":192036,"date":"2026-03-02T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/fiu-researchers-use-ai-and-a-stethoscope-to-detect-heart-disease-earlier-nbc-6-south-florida\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:35:11","slug":"fiu-researchers-use-ai-and-a-stethoscope-to-detect-heart-disease-earlier-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/fiu-researchers-use-ai-and-a-stethoscope-to-detect-heart-disease-earlier-nbc-6-south-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU researchers use AI and a stethoscope to detect heart disease earlier \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/innovation-on-6\/fiu-researchers-use-ai-and-a-stethoscope-to-detect-heart-disease-earlier\/3775024\/\">FIU researchers use AI and a stethoscope to detect heart disease earlier \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/innovation-on-6\/fiu-researchers-use-ai-and-a-stethoscope-to-detect-heart-disease-earlier\/3775024\/\">https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/innovation-on-6\/fiu-researchers-use-ai-and-a-stethoscope-to-detect-heart-disease-earlier\/3775024\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 08:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nbcmiami.com\">www.nbcmiami.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers at Florida International University (FIU) have developed an algorithm using heart sounds recorded through a stethoscope and artificial intelligence to potentially detect early stages of heart disease with high accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>The algorithm, which analyzes subtle changes in heart sounds that are not detectable by the human ear, achieved 95% accuracy in identifying healthy heart sounds and 85% accuracy in identifying diseased heart sounds during lab testing.<\/li>\n<li>The motivation for this research is deeply personal for some team members, including Maruchi Mendez, whose son died suddenly from an undetected heart condition.<\/li>\n<li>FIU is partnering with Baptist Health to conduct clinical testing and to create a database of heart sounds to improve the algorithm&#8217;s capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The technology aims to be used in medical offices within the next five years as a routine measurement, potentially replacing traditional heart sound listening by doctors.<\/li>\n<li>In the future, the algorithm could be used for home monitoring of heart health between doctor visits.<\/li>\n<li>As a lasting legacy, Maruchi Mendez successfully lobbied for mandatory EKG screenings for high school athletes in Miami-Dade County Public Schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIU researchers use AI and a stethoscope to detect heart disease earlier \u2013 NBC 6&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.nbcmiami.com\/2026\/03\/46288280132-1080pnbcstations.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&resize=1200%2C675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-192036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192038,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192036\/revisions\/192038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}