FDA-cleared profile

Fetal EchoScan (v1.2)

Brightheart

Concurrent CADx aid for suspicious fetal cardiac morphological findings during second-trimester fetal heart ultrasound.

Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
Concurrent CADx aid for suspicious fetal cardiac morphological findings during second-trimester fetal heart ultrasound.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Intended users
Interpreting physicians.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Care setting and population
Second-trimester anatomic fetal ultrasound at 18-24 weeks of gestation for pregnant women aged 18 or older.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Workflow role
Concurrent reading aid and adjunct to physician interpretation; it does not replace the physician or other standard-of-care testing.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Required input
Fetal cardiac ultrasound video clips containing interpretable four-chamber, left-ventricular-outflow-tract, and right-ventricular-outflow-tract standard views.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
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Output and human action
For each frame, present, absent, or inconclusive status for eight suspicious fetal cardiac findings, plus an overall exam summary; annotated DICOMs are displayed in the user PACS viewer and optionally in a validated third-party interface.
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Limitations
Not for multiple pregnancies, fetal heterotaxy, or postnatal ultrasound. Inconclusive outputs require scenario-specific handling in performance analysis. The packet states validation only with Fujifilm, GE, Philips, Samsung, and Toshiba ultrasound devices.
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Regulatory identity

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FDA submission
K252294
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  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
Ultrasound
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Anatomy
Fetal Heart / Obstetric
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Clearance type
510(k)
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Decision date
2025-12-08
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FDA status
FDA-cleared
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Implementation

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Integration
Cloud-based software outputs annotated DICOMs to the user PACS viewer and optionally a validated third-party user interface; exact products, versions, routing, and current commercial configuration are not established.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Deployment and data flow
Hybrid
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  • Checked 2026-08-13

Deployment category preserved from the prior exact-submission review; hosting region, data flow, and current commercial configuration still require vendor confirmation.

Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
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Exact-release security controls, data retention, hosting boundaries, and scoped assurance documentation require vendor confirmation.

Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
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Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
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Result destination

PACS is explicitly referenced as a result destination.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

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ACR exact-submission catalog context

ACR AI Central provides an exact-submission model card for Fetal EchoScan (v1.2); FDA labeling remains controlling for clinical use, limitations, and performance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-08

Evidence

Performance evidence

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Evidence summary
FDA standalone testing used 877 second-trimester fetal ultrasound exams from 11 centers, with three pediatric cardiologists providing majority-vote truthing and testing data separate from training. For any suspicious finding, when inconclusive exams were counted negative, sensitivity was 0.984 (CI .963-.993) and specificity 0.970 (.952-.981); when counted positive, sensitivity was 0.990 (.972-.997) and specificity 0.958 (.938-.971). The packet also summarizes a fully crossed reader study of 14 readers and 200 exams: aided AUC 0.974 versus unaided 0.825, aided mean sensitivity 0.935 versus 0.782, and aided mean specificity 0.970 versus 0.759.
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Reported sensitivity
98.4% (95% CI: 96.3%, 99.3%)
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Model sensitivity reported by ACR AI Central. Review endpoint, threshold, study population, and tested version before comparison.

Reported specificity
97% (95% CI: 95.2%, 98.1%)
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Model specificity reported by ACR AI Central. Review endpoint, threshold, study population, and tested version before comparison.

No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.

Fetal EchoScan (v1.2) regulatory performance study summary

  • DesignStand-alone performance and reader study (ACR AI Central category)
  • PopulationAdult
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested version1.2
  • Samplen=877
  • Sites11
  • IndependenceIndependence not established

K252294

ACR AI Central summarizes the regulatory study; consult the exact FDA materials before comparative use.

Costs and setup

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Pricing and total cost
Vendor documentation pending
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No public price or quote for the exact K252294 configuration was established in this review.

Reimbursement and coding
Not established in reviewed sources
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No exact-product payer policy, coding instruction, or payment determination was established; eligibility must be evaluated by payer, site of service, and use case.

Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
The exact-identifier FDA recall query returned no native recall record for K252294. This limited result does not establish absence of recalls or other safety information and does not cover later versions, family records, MAUDE reports, corrections, or field notices.
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Research record

What has been checked

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Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-08Last searched
24Fields reviewed
9Source classes checked
0Awaiting review PubMed leads
0Awaiting review trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

Exact-submission ACR model-card fields were normalized under the current provenance rules; vendor and independent-study confirmation remain distinct. Exact FDA scope controls clinical claims. ACR provides bounded exact-submission catalog context. Candidate literature metadata remains a discovery queue until full-text identity, endpoint, population, and version review is completed. Automated exact-name discovery found 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records. Candidates require human product and version matching; zero candidates is not evidence that no studies exist. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads remain unpublished until a human confirms the exact product and tested version.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, acr ai central product, fda device recall, literature index, trial registry, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

How this profile was documented

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Source ledger

  1. FDA K252294: Fetal EchoScan (v1.2)

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2025-12-08 - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: identity, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, workflow, evidence, implementation

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. Fetal EchoScan (v1.2) model card (K252294)

    American College of Radiology - Published 2026-08-17 - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: intendedUsers, careSetting, output, limitations, reportedSensitivity, reportedSpecificity, evidenceSummary, integration, anatomy, evidenceStudies, implementationCapabilities

  4. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  5. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  6. openFDA Device Recall API

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-02

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  7. openFDA exact recall query for K252294

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: postmarketSafety

Research history

  1. K252294 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    fda record reviewed

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