India, Dec. 18 -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have trained an AI model to diagnose heart disease, according to Medical Xpress. Doctors believe this advancement will help them efficiently detect coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMVD), which affects the tinier vessels, in patients.

CMVD diagnosis requires advanced imaging techniques. Although around 14 million people visit a clinic each year for chest pain, CMVD cases often go undetected. Venkatesh L. Murthy, a cardiology professor, told Medical Xpress that the AI model will help "clinicians to accurately identify" CMVD, which is "notoriously hard to diagnose and often missed in emergency department visits".

CMVD, which affects the tinier vessels, causes chest pain and in...