Top 1 Vascular Ultrasound in 2025: From Anatomy to Autonomy – Artificial Intelligence and Carotid Ultrasound

Introduction

In recent years, we have witnessed a universal and unprecedented advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) across diverse medical scenarios, with a particularly relevant impact on diagnostic imaging, especially ultrasonography.

Ultrasonography is a widely available, low-cost, real-time method with rapid image acquisition and no exposure to ionizing radiation. Despite these advantages, ultrasonography remains limited by its operator- and equipment-dependent nature, which contributes to significant interobserver and interinstitutional variability, in addition to hindering large-scale standardization.^,

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