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BrightHeart View Classifier

BrightHeart

Automatic standard-view classification, frame extraction, and acquisition-protocol assessment during second- or third-trimester fetal ultrasound.

Evidence status: each field shows source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established in reviewed sources, and vendor documentation pending are distinct outcomes.

Clinical fit

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
Automatic standard-view classification, frame extraction, and acquisition-protocol assessment during second- or third-trimester fetal ultrasound.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Intended users
Qualified, trained healthcare professionals in a professional prenatal ultrasound environment, including sonographers, MFMs, OB/GYNs, and fetal surgeons
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Care setting and population
Professional prenatal ultrasound imaging environment
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Workflow role
Acquisition and interpretation support: classifies standard views, extracts representative frames, and assesses whether documented views satisfy a center-defined acquisition protocol.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Required input
Fetal 2D ultrasound images and video clips from transabdominal probes during second- or third-trimester examinations, at 18 weeks of gestation or later, for pregnant women aged 18 or older and single pregnancies.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Output and human action
Automatic classification of fetal heart and abdomen standard views, extracted example frames from video clips, acquisition-protocol assessment, and annotated DICOM files displayed in a DICOM viewer with optional web-interface display; generated annotated DICOM files cannot be modified by the user.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Limitations
Not intended for multiple pregnancies. The packet limits intended/validated use to transabdominal examinations at 18 weeks of gestation or later and to General Electric, Philips, Samsung, and Siemens ultrasound devices; standard-view classification is not a disease-detection endpoint.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

Regulatory identity

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FDA submission
K251456
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
Ultrasound
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Anatomy
Fetal heart and abdomen standard views during fetal anatomic ultrasound
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Clearance type
510(k)
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2025-06-05
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
FDA status
FDA-cleared
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31

Implementation

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Integration
Cloud-based, stand-alone software that operates on DICOM files, displays annotated DICOM outputs in a DICOM viewer, and may also display them in a device web interface. Specific PACS/RIS interfaces and local compatibility are not established.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Deployment and data flow
On-cloud
Public source Exact FDA submission 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 Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

Exact-release security controls, data retention, hosting boundaries, and scoped assurance documentation require vendor confirmation.

Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
Vendor confirmation Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

Current training prerequisites, competency checks, and support commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
Vendor confirmation Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

Current drift, quality, uptime, alert, escalation, and incident-response commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Input or output interoperability

DICOM is explicitly referenced in the described input, output, or workflow.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

The model card does not establish every supported DICOM object, transfer method, or local interface.

ACR exact-submission catalog context

ACR AI Central provides an exact-submission model card for BrightHeart View Classifier; 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 bench validation used 2,290 clinically acquired images and video frames from 579 fetal ultrasound examinations at 18 weeks of gestation or later, from eight centers. A sonographer and an MFM specialist independently established the standard-view reference. Mean standard-view recognition sensitivity was 0.939 (95% CI 0.917-0.960) and specificity was 0.984 (95% CI 0.973-0.996). Validation used GE, Philips, Samsung, and Siemens ultrasound devices and separate training and testing examinations.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Reported sensitivity
93.9% (95% CI: 91.7%, 96.0%)
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-01

Model sensitivity reported by ACR AI Central. Review endpoint, threshold, study population, and tested version before comparison.

Reported specificity
98.4% (95% CI: 97.3%, 99.6%)
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-01

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.

BrightHeart View Classifier regulatory performance study summary

Stand-Alone Performance · Adult

exact submission · Tested version: Exact product version not reported; regulatory study summarized for FDA submission K251456 · n=2290 · 8 sites · Independence not established

K251456

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

Economics and lifecycle

Budget and ongoing governance

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Pricing and total cost
Vendor documentation pending
Vendor confirmation Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

No public price or quote for the exact K251456 configuration was established in this review.

Reimbursement and coding
Not established in reviewed sources
Reviewed sources checked Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

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 K251456. 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.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

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Research record

What has been checked

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Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-08Last searched
25Fields reviewed
9Source classes checked
0Unreviewed PubMed leads
0Unreviewed 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

Source ledger

Sources accessed through 2026-09-08.

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