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

How We ACTUALLY Measure Heart Plaque

21 Aug 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:48

In this segment of the YouTube video, the presenter explains the workflow used to measure coronary plaque with unprecedented precision. They highlight the installation of North America’s first 640‑slice CT scanner, which captures high‑resolution, three‑dimensional cardiac images. The raw imaging data is uploaded to a cloud platform where a proprietary artificial‑intelligence engine analyzes the scans, detecting plaque that is invisible to the naked eye and providing exact quantitative measurements of total plaque burden as well as plaque volume in each coronary vessel and individual arterial segment. The speaker emphasizes the novelty of the technology and its ability to deliver detailed, actionable plaque metrics.

Chapters

Cholesterol levels, both very high, not that terribly different from one another. So, we looked under the hood, that is, we put them in our scanner, our first of this type of scanner installed in North America that I'm very proud about. Yes. A 640-slice scanner. We do the scan, so that gives us the data, the 3-dimensional, high-resolution data. Then, we feed that up to the cloud. And do this incredibly phenomenal AI analysis of that data. Of the imaging, right? Exactly. So it's this incredible AI-powered— So with AI, literally, it shows me things that I cannot see with my eye. Got it. And quantifies it. So I can tell you exactly how much plaque you have in your whole heart, in each vessel, in each segment. Got it.