The use of artificial intelligence is rapidly impacting cardiovascular care, offering new opportunities to enhance diagnostics and personalise treatment. Despite its promising potential, the integration of AI into cardiology clinical practice requires thoughtful implementation and evidence-based validation.

This month's FOCUS highlights the ESC Artificial Intelligence Hub and explores how AI technologies are being developed to improve cardiovascular risk assessment and mortality prediction. You will gain insights from leading experts who debate the pros and cons of AI implementation in cardiology practice, and discover practical applications through specialised resources on multimodality imaging and large language models.

This FOCUS brings together pioneering research, expert perspectives, and practical guidance to help clinicians understand the potential roles of AI in cardiovascular care, and how these could ultimately improve diagnostic accuracy, clinical decision support and patient outcomes.

The content below was selected by Ronen Beeri, Matthijs Cluitmans, Maria Generosa Crespo Leiro, Jose Millet and Chris Plummer to help you delve into the various aspects of digital tools and AI in cardiology.