John OsborneChief Medical Officer, ClearCardio LLC · Preventive cardiologist and Chief Medical Officer at ClearCardio

How Cardiologists Use AI to Scan Your Heart

25 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker describes AI‑enhanced cardiac imaging as a set of "AI glasses" that expand a clinician’s visual range from the ordinary red‑green‑blue view to virtually the entire electromagnetic spectrum—including infrared, ultraviolet, X‑rays, gamma rays, and radar. This expanded vision enables detection of the hardest‑to‑see coronary plaque, especially soft plaque. The AI system quantifies plaque volume with high precision, measuring down to a tenth of a cubic millimeter, and classifies plaque into hard, soft, and sub‑categories of soft plaque, providing clinicians with detailed, near‑microscopic insight into a patient’s arterial health.

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It literally gives us Superman-like vision to see particularly the most difficult to see black, which is the soft black. Without my AI glasses on, I can see red, green, and blue. I put on my fancy AI glasses, now I can see red, green, blue, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, radar waves, or basically analogous to the entire electromagnetic spectrum. So that's what AI does. It literally gives us Superman-like vision to see particularly the most difficult to see plaque, which is the soft plaque. Furthermore, we can then analyze exactly how much plaque you have measured in cubic millimeters, and we can actually measure how much plaque you have down to a 10th of a cubic millimeter, which is almost getting to the microscopic level. We can then categorize that plaque— hard plaque, soft plaque, a couple different kinds of soft plaque.