(Yicai) Feb. 27 -- Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital has officially released the beta version of China's first artificial intelligence model in the cardiovascular field, marking the beginning of the smart cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment era.

CardioMind, co-developed by Zhongshan Hospital and Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, aims to become an AI doctor specialized in cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment with top-level experience, Ge Junbo, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of Zhongshan Hospital's cardiology department, said at the AI model presentation conference yesterday.

"We're feeding CardioMind data and teaching it to think like a top expert," Ge explained.

In addition to general cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment knowledge, CardioMind has also absorbed hundreds of thousands of electronic medical records from the cardiology department of Zhongshan Hospital, learned the ways doctors think in diagnosis and treatment, and picked up various difficult cases, Ge noted.

"CardioMind's knowledge is precisely focused on all types of cardiovascular diseases," Ge said, adding that the AI model can comprehensively process various examination data from electrocardiograms, ultrasound images, and laboratories and make diagnosis and treatment conclusions by processing the information.

The cardiology department of Zhongshan Hospital admitted 820,000 patients last year, according to Ge. "With the help of CardioMind, our doctors can serve more patients, reduce the overall workload, and improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment."

CardioMind transforms the expertise of top doctors from leading medical institutions into "digital diagnosis and treatment capabilities" that can be replicated, Ge said. The promotion and application of CardioMind can accelerate the utilization of high-quality medical resources in primary medical institutions, he added.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Futura Costaglione