FDA-cleared profile

Fetal EchoScan (v1.1)

BrightHeart

Adjunctive detection of suspicious fetal cardiac findings during second-trimester ultrasound to aid concurrent OB-GYN or maternal-fetal-medicine interpretation.

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
Adjunctive detection of suspicious fetal cardiac findings during second-trimester ultrasound to aid concurrent OB-GYN or maternal-fetal-medicine interpretation.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Intended users
Interpreting physicians, specifically OB-GYNs and maternal-fetal medicine physicians
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Care setting and population
Prenatal/obstetric ultrasound care during second-trimester anatomic examinations at 18-24 weeks of gestation for pregnant women aged 18 or older
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Workflow role
Concurrent CADx reading aid for frame- and clip-level finding classification, with physician review and standard-of-care follow-up; not a stand-alone diagnostic decision maker
FDA source 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 from second-trimester examinations at 18-24 weeks of gestation.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Output and human action
For each frame, present, absent, or inconclusive classification for the eight suspicious findings; a record summary for each video clip; an exam summary for the overall study; and annotated DICOM outputs displayed in the user PACS viewer, with an optional web-interface display.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Limitations
Not intended for multiple pregnancies, heterotaxy, or postnatal ultrasound examinations. It is an adjunct and does not replace physician review or other diagnostic testing. The packet describes validation on Fujifilm, GE, Philips, Samsung, and Toshiba ultrasound devices and on the stated second-trimester population; inconclusive outputs require interpretation.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

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FDA submission
K251071
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
Ultrasound
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Anatomy
Fetal heart, including four-chamber, left-ventricular-outflow-tract, and right-ventricular-outflow-tract views and the specified suspicious cardiac findings
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Clearance type
510(k)
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2025-05-02
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 software-only device with annotated DICOM output displayed in a user PACS viewer and optionally in a web interface; the FDA packet does not establish specific PACS/RIS/EHR interface versions or a local deployment topology.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Deployment and data flow
Hybrid
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.

ACR exact-submission catalog context

ACR AI Central provides an exact-submission model card for Fetal EchoScan (v1.1); 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 packet: standalone testing used 877 clinically acquired fetal ultrasound examinations from 11 centers, with three pediatric cardiologists establishing majority-vote reference standards; 98.8% of exams had a conclusive output for any finding. A fully crossed reader study used 14 readers and 200 exams in aided and unaided conditions, with training and validation examinations distinct from standalone test examinations.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08
Reported sensitivity
Any suspicious finding: 97.7% worst-case and 98.7% best-case, depending on how inconclusive outputs are counted.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

Reader-study AUC, sensitivity, and specificity changes are separate percentage-point effects and are not standalone device values.

Reported specificity
Any suspicious finding: 97.7% best-case and 96.3% worst-case, depending on how inconclusive outputs are counted.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-08

Reader-study AUC, sensitivity, and specificity changes are separate percentage-point effects and are not standalone device values.

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

Fetal EchoScan v1.1 regulatory performance study summary

Stand-alone performance and reader study (ACR AI Central category) · Adult

exact submission · Tested version: Exact product version not reported; regulatory study summarized for FDA submission K251071 · n=877 · 11 sites · Independence not established

K251071

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 K251071 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 K251071. 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
24Fields 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

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