2025
Artificial Intelligence–Guided Lung Ultrasound by Nonexperts
Baloescu C, Bailitz J, Cheema B, Agarwala R, Jankowski M, Eke O, Liu R, Nomura J, Stolz L, Gargani L, Alkan E, Wellman T, Parajuli N, Marra A, Thomas Y, Patel D, Schraft E, O’Brien J, Moore C, Gottlieb M. Artificial Intelligence–Guided Lung Ultrasound by Nonexperts. JAMA Cardiology 2025, 10: 245-253. PMID: 39813064, PMCID: PMC11904735, DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.4991.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThis study shows AI helps non-experts create expert-quality lung ultrasound images, which may improve healthcare diagnostics access in underserved areas.Artificial intelligence-guided detection of under-recognised cardiomyopathies on point-of-care cardiac ultrasonography: a multicentre study
Oikonomou E, Vaid A, Holste G, Coppi A, McNamara R, Baloescu C, Krumholz H, Wang Z, Apakama D, Nadkarni G, Khera R. Artificial intelligence-guided detection of under-recognised cardiomyopathies on point-of-care cardiac ultrasonography: a multicentre study. The Lancet Digital Health 2025, 7: e113-e123. PMID: 39890242, DOI: 10.1016/s2589-7500(24)00249-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsYale New Haven Health SystemPoint-of-care ultrasonographyMount Sinai Health SystemTransthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathyArtificial intelligenceHealth systemAmyloid cardiomyopathyHypertrophic cardiomyopathyRetrospective cohort of individualsCardiomyopathy casesTesting artificial intelligenceConvolutional neural networkSinai Health SystemCohort of individualsOpportunistic screeningHypertrophic cardiomyopathy casesMulti-labelPositive screenAI frameworkEmergency departmentMortality riskNeural networkLoss functionCardiac ultrasonographyAugmentation approach
2023
Emergency Department Point‐of‐Care Echocardiography and Lung Ultrasound in Predicting COVID‐19 Severity
Baloescu C, Weingart G, Moore C. Emergency Department Point‐of‐Care Echocardiography and Lung Ultrasound in Predicting COVID‐19 Severity. Journal Of Ultrasound In Medicine 2023, 42: 1841-1850. PMID: 36840721, DOI: 10.1002/jum.16205.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLeft ventricular ejection fractionPleural line abnormalitiesSevere COVID-19Emergency departmentSevere COVIDPOCUS findingsCOVID-19Decreased LVEFEmergency department pointHypoxemic respiratory failureRetrospective cohort studyAdult ED patientsRight ventricular dilationVentricular ejection fractionWeeks of presentationSevere clinical courseCOVID-19 severityLung POCUSRespiratory failureCohort studyCare echocardiographyClinical courseDisease courseEjection fractionHospital admission
2020
The cost of waiting: Association of ED boarding with hospitalization costs
Baloescu C, Kinsman J, Ravi S, Parwani V, Sangal RB, Ulrich A, Venkatesh AK. The cost of waiting: Association of ED boarding with hospitalization costs. The American Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2020, 40: 169-172. PMID: 33272871, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.10.058.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsED boardingHospitalization costsED crowdingHospital spendingHospital care accessMultivariate linear regression analysisED patient volumeCost of careQuality of careEmergency department boardingCross-sectional analysisPublic health crisisED lengthEffective careCare accessHospital levelInpatient bedsED characteristicsLinear regression analysisPatient volumeCareMedicare spendingMultivariate regressionPatientsRegression analysis
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