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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

Autonomous Agents for Auditable Cardiovascular Artificial Intelligence Development.

Lovedeep S Dhingra, Bruno Batinica, Ryan B Choi, Philip M Croon, Evangelos K Oikonomou, Rohan Khera

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Lovedeep S DhingraCardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5664-4126
Bruno BatinicaCardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5525-9007
Ryan B ChoiCardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Philip M CroonCardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4490-8857
Evangelos K OikonomouCardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4362-0720
Rohan KheraCardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9467-6199

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Yale Study Support Suite (YES3): Dashboard and Web Portal Software Supporting Research Workflow through integrated, customizable REDCap External ModulesP30AG021342 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Lauren Ferrante · 2002 to 2026
$37.9M
Deep learning enhanced detection and personalized monitoring of aortic stenosis - The DETECT-AS StudyR01AG089981 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Rohan Khera · 2024 to 2026
$2.4M
Translating Personalized Inference from Randomized Clinical Trials to Real-World Cardiovascular CareR01HL167858 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Rohan Khera · 2024 to 2026
$2.3M
Evaluating and Improving Utilization of Evidence-Based Medical Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure using Automated Tools in the Electronic Health RecordK23HL153775 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KHERA, ROHAN · 2021 to 2025
$918k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL153775NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL167858NIA NIH HHS P30 AG021342NIA NIH HHS R01 AG089981
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical artificial intelligence (AI) models are usually reported as finished artifacts, but each model reflects a limited human search across a much larger space of architectures, inputs, losses, optimizers, and training recipes. We tested whether autonomous code-writing agents could perform a controlled model-development experiment: proposing and evaluating code changes, and seeking performance gains without new data or human-guided edits. We built two such agents: an Iteration Agent that searches sequentially, keeping the best variant at each step, and an Evolution Agent that searches for variations in parallel using multiple large language models and prioritizes high-performing lineages across generations. In two architecturally distinct AI-enhanced electrocardiography (AI-ECG) models for structural heart disease, agent-optimized variants improved rank discrimination across held-out, external, and cross-institution evaluations, with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve gains of +0.006 to +0.039 (paired

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Artificial IntelligenceAutonomous AgentsElectrocardiographyLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningModel OptimizationStructural Heart Disease

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PMID42523449
PMCPMC13405374

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