Rima Arnaout, MD

Title(s)Associate Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Phone415-514-6411
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    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MASBBiology, Bioengineering
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MAMDMedicine
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MAInternal Medicine Residency
    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CACardiology Fellowship
    University of California, San Francisco, CA2021Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training
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    Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute2024UCSF Chen Scholar
    American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering2023Fellow
    National Academy of Medicine2022Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine
    American Society of Echocardiography2022Fellow
    Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation2013  - 2015Sarnoff Scholar Award
    UCSF2012  - 2013Pierre and Christine Lamond Research Fellow in Cardiology
    NIH2011  - 2013National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Award
    Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation2005  - 2006Sarnoff Fellow Award
    Voice of America2004  - 2005AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship Award

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    Dr. Rima Arnaout is an Assistant Professor in Medicine (Cardiology) and a member of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, the Biological and Medical Informatics graduate program, and the Center for Intelligent Imaging. She is a physician-scientist with a background in genetics, clinical research and programming, and a practicing cardiologist board-certified in multi-modality cardiovascular imaging. Improving the resolution and accuracy of cardiovascular phenotypes will lead to novel insights and therapies. Dr. Arnaout is currently developing computational methods to bring precision phenotyping to echocardiography. Her background as a physician-scientist informs the future scope of this work as a technology that can transform non-invasive imaging into a big-data tool for both research and clinical use.
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    Improving cardiovascular image-based phenotyping using emerging methods in artificial intelligence
    NIH R01HL150394Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2025
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Department of Defense Jul 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2022
    Deep Learning as a New Method for Echocardiographic Data Harmonization in the Cloud
    AHA 17IGMV33870001Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2019
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Genetics and Structure of Trabecular Myocardium in Development and Disease
    NIH K08HL125945Sep 9, 2015 - Aug 31, 2020
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Adapting GRASP to zebrafish; interrogating the role of endocardial-myocardial interactions on heart development
    UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) Jul 1, 2014 - Jun 30, 2016
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Genetic analysis of trabeculated myocardium
    Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Scholar Award Aug 1, 2013 - Jul 31, 2015
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Genetic Analyst of Early Conduction System Development
    NIH F32HL110489Aug 1, 2011 - Jul 31, 2013
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
    Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

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    1. The MI-CLAIM-GEN checklist for generative artificial intelligence in health. Nat Med. 2025 May; 31(5):1394-1398. Miao BY, Chen IY, Williams CYK, Davidson J, Garcia-Agundez A, Sun S, Zack T, Saria S, Arnaout R, Quer G, Sadaei HJ, Torkamani A, Beaulieu-Jones B, Yu B, Gianfrancesco M, Butte AJ, Norgeot B, Sushil M. PMID: 39915678.
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    2. Self-supervised learning for label-free segmentation in cardiac ultrasound. Nat Commun. 2025 Apr 30; 16(1):4070. Ferreira DL, Lau C, Salaymang Z, Arnaout R. PMID: 40307208; PMCID: PMC12043926.
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    3. Ontology-guided machine learning outperforms zero-shot foundation models for cardiac ultrasound text reports. Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 14; 15(1):5456. Subramaniam S, Rizvi S, Ramesh R, Sehgal V, Gurusamy B, Arif H, Tran J, Thamman R, Anyanwu EC, Mastouri R, Mackensen GB, Arnaout R. PMID: 39953053; PMCID: PMC11828978.
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    4. Are AI Foundation Models Efficient for Segmentation of Echocardiograms? J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2025 Feb 08. Ferreira DL, Arnaout R. PMID: 39929395.
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    5. Improving Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Disease With a Scalable Composite Analysis of 6 Fetal Cardiac Ultrasound Biometrics. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2024 Dec; 37(12):1186-1188. Reddy A, Rizvi S, Moon-Grady AJ, Arnaout R. PMID: 39209237.
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    6. Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy. medRxiv. 2024 May 04. Wang Q, Tang TM, Youlton N, Weldy CS, Kenney AM, Ronen O, Weston Hughes J, Chin ET, Sutton SC, Agarwal A, Li X, Behr M, Kumbier K, Moravec CS, Wilson Tang WH, Margulies KB, Cappola TP, Butte AJ, Arnaout R, Brown JB, Priest JR, Parikh VN, Yu B, Ashley EA. PMID: 37987017; PMCID: PMC10659487.
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    7. Adapting vision-language AI models to cardiology tasks. Nat Med. 2024 May; 30(5):1245-1246. Arnaout R. PMID: 38693248.
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    8. Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions. PLoS One. 2024; 19(4):e0298906. Behr M, Kumbier K, Cordova-Palomera A, Aguirre M, Ronen O, Ye C, Ashley E, Butte AJ, Arnaout R, Brown B, Priest J, Yu B. PMID: 38625909; PMCID: PMC11020961.
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    9. Myocardial Texture Analysis of Echocardiograms in Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2024 May; 37(5):570-573. Datar Y, Cuddy SAM, Ovsak G, Giblin GT, Maurer MS, Ruberg FL, Arnaout R, Dorbala S. PMID: 38395112; PMCID: PMC11070288.
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    10. Novel Techniques in Imaging Congenital Heart Disease: JACC Scientific Statement. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 01 02; 83(1):63-81. Sachdeva R, Armstrong AK, Arnaout R, Grosse-Wortmann L, Han BK, Mertens L, Moore RA, Olivieri LJ, Parthiban A, Powell AJ. PMID: 38171712; PMCID: PMC10947556.
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    11. greylock: A Python Package for Measuring The Composition of Complex Datasets. ArXiv. 2023 Dec 29. Nguyen P, Arora R, Hill ED, Braun J, Morgan A, Quintana LM, Mazzoni G, Lee GR, Arnaout R, Arnaout R. PMID: 39070042; PMCID: PMC11275705.
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    12. Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy. Res Sq. 2023 Nov 20. Wang Q, Tang TM, Youlton N, Weldy CS, Kenney AM, Ronen O, Hughes JW, Chin ET, Sutton SC, Agarwal A, Li X, Behr M, Kumbier K, Moravec CS, Tang WHW, Margulies KB, Cappola TP, Butte AJ, Arnaout R, Brown JB, Priest JR, Parikh VN, Yu B, Ashley EA. PMID: 38045390; PMCID: PMC10690313.
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    13. ChatGPT Helped Me Write This Talk Title, but Can It Read an Echocardiogram? J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023 10; 36(10):1021-1026. Arnaout R. PMID: 37499771; PMCID: PMC10914544.
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    14. Proceedings of the NHLBI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging: Translation to Patient Care. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 09; 16(9):1209-1223. Dey D, Arnaout R, Antani S, Badano A, Jacques L, Li H, Leiner T, Margerrison E, Samala R, Sengupta PP, Shah SJ, Slomka P, Williams MC, Bandettini WP, Sachdev V. PMID: 37480904; PMCID: PMC10524663.
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    15. ENRICHing medical imaging training sets enables more efficient machine learning. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 05 19; 30(6):1079-1090. Chinn E, Arora R, Arnaout R, Arnaout R. PMID: 37036945; PMCID: PMC10198519.
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    16. The (Heart and) Soul of a Human Creation: Designing Echocardiography for the Big Data Age. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023 07; 36(7):800-801. Arnaout R, Hahn RT, Hung JW, Jone PN, Lester SJ, Little SH, Mackensen GB, Rigolin V, Sachdev V, Saric M, Sengupta PP, Strom JB, Taub CC, Thamman R, Abraham T. PMID: 37191597; PMCID: PMC10913146.
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    17. Domain-guided data augmentation for deep learning on medical imaging. PLoS One. 2023; 18(3):e0282532. Athalye C, Arnaout R. PMID: 36952442; PMCID: PMC10035842.
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    18. Deep learning model for prenatal congenital heart disease (CHD) screening generalizes to the community setting and outperforms clinical detection. medRxiv. 2023 Mar 12. Athalye C, van Nisselrooij A, Rizvi S, Haak M, Moon-Grady AJ, Arnaout R. PMID: 38903074; PMCID: PMC11188113.
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    19. Gender-based time discrepancy in diagnosis of coronary artery disease based on data analytics of electronic medical records. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022; 9:969325. Panahiazar M, Bishara AM, Chern Y, Alizadehsani R, Islam SMS, Hadley D, Arnaout R, Beygui RE. PMID: 36505372; PMCID: PMC9729739.
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    20. Visualizing omicron: COVID-19 deaths vs. cases over time. PLoS One. 2022; 17(4):e0265233. Arnaout R, Arnaout R. PMID: 35439253; PMCID: PMC9017933.
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    21. Mitral Valve Atlas for Artificial Intelligence Predictions of MitraClip Intervention Outcomes. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021; 8:759675. Dabiri Y, Yao J, Mahadevan VS, Gruber D, Arnaout R, Gentzsch W, Guccione JM, Kassab GS. PMID: 34957251; PMCID: PMC8709129.
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    22. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Strategy for Automated View Classification of Pediatric Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma. J Ultrasound Med. 2022 Aug; 41(8):1915-1924. Kornblith AE, Addo N, Dong R, Rogers R, Grupp-Phelan J, Butte A, Gupta P, Callcut RA, Arnaout R. PMID: 34741469; PMCID: PMC9072593.
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    23. Can Machine Learning Help Simplify the Measurement of Diastolic Function in Echocardiography? JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 11; 14(11):2105-2106. Arnaout R. PMID: 34274276; PMCID: PMC8570999.
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    24. An ensemble of neural networks provides expert-level prenatal detection of complex congenital heart disease. Nat Med. 2021 05; 27(5):882-891. Arnaout R, Curran L, Zhao Y, Levine JC, Chinn E, Moon-Grady AJ. PMID: 33990806; PMCID: PMC8380434.
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    25. Intelligence-based medicine. Chang AC, editor. Deep learning for medical ultrasound. 2021. Arnaout R. .
    26. Machine Learning and the Future of Cardiovascular Care: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 01 26; 77(3):300-313. Quer G, Arnaout R, Henne M, Arnaout R. PMID: 33478654; PMCID: PMC7839163.
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    27. Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions. bioRxiv. 2020. Behr M, Kumbier K, Cordova-Palomera A, Aguirre M, Ashley E, Butte A, Arnaout R, Brown B, Priest J, Yu B.
    28. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Model for Automated View Classification of Pediatric Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST). medRxiv. 2020. Kornblith A, Addo N, Dong R, Rogers R, Grupp-Phelan J, Butte A, Gupta P, Callcut R, Arnaout R. .
    29. Best practices for authors of healthcare-related artificial intelligence manuscripts. NPJ Digit Med. 2020; 3:134. Kakarmath S, Esteva A, Arnaout R, Harvey H, Kumar S, Muse E, Dong F, Wedlund L, Kvedar J. PMID: 33083569; PMCID: PMC7567805.
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    30. Proposed Requirements for Cardiovascular Imaging-Related Machine Learning Evaluation (PRIME): A Checklist: Reviewed by the American College of Cardiology Healthcare Innovation Council. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 09; 13(9):2017-2035. Sengupta PP, Shrestha S, Berthon B, Messas E, Donal E, Tison GH, Min JK, D'hooge J, Voigt JU, Dudley J, Verjans JW, Shameer K, Johnson K, Lovstakken L, Tabassian M, Piccirilli M, Pernot M, Yanamala N, Duchateau N, Kagiyama N, Bernard O, Slomka P, Deo R, Arnaout R. PMID: 32912474; PMCID: PMC7953597.
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    31. Minimum information about clinical artificial intelligence modeling: the MI-CLAIM checklist. Nat Med. 2020 09; 26(9):1320-1324. Norgeot B, Quer G, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Torkamani A, Dias R, Gianfrancesco M, Arnaout R, Kohane IS, Saria S, Topol E, Obermeyer Z, Yu B, Butte AJ. PMID: 32908275; PMCID: PMC7538196.
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    32. Expert-level prenatal detection of complex congenital heart disease from screening ultrasound using deep learning. medRxiv. 2020. Arnaout R, Curran L, Zhao Y, Levine J, Chinn E, Moon-Grady A.
    33. Pregnancy complications and premature cardiovascular events among 1.6 million California pregnancies. Open Heart. 2019; 6(1):e000927. Arnaout R, Nah G, Marcus G, Tseng Z, Foster E, Harris IS, Divanji P, Klein L, Gonzalez J, Parikh N. PMID: 30997125; PMCID: PMC6443129.
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    34. Toward a clearer picture of health. Nat Med. 2019 Jan; 25(1):12. Arnaout R. PMID: 30613101.
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    35. Distinct myocardial lineages break atrial symmetry during cardiogenesis in zebrafish. Elife. 2018 05 15; 7. Guerra A, Germano RF, Stone O, Arnaout R, Guenther S, Ahuja S, Uribe V, Vanhollebeke B, Stainier DY, Reischauer S. PMID: 29762122; PMCID: PMC5953537.
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    36. Fast and accurate view classification of echocardiograms using deep learning. NPJ Digit Med. 2018; 1. Madani A, Arnaout R, Mofrad M, Arnaout R. PMID: 30828647; PMCID: PMC6395045.
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    37. Neuregulin-1 is essential for nerve plexus formation during cardiac maturation. J Cell Mol Med. 2018 03; 22(3):2007-2017. Brown D, Samsa LA, Ito C, Ma H, Batres K, Arnaout R, Qian L, Liu J. PMID: 29265764; PMCID: PMC5824398.
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    38. LITTLE FISH, BIG DATA: ZEBRAFISH AS A MODEL FOR CARDIOVASCULAR AND METABOLIC DISEASE. Physiol Rev. 2017 07 01; 97(3):889-938. Gut P, Reischauer S, Stainier DYR, Arnaout R. PMID: 28468832; PMCID: PMC5817164.
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    39. Fast and accurate classification of echocardiograms using deep learning. ArXiv e-prints. 2017; (arXiv:1706). Madani A, Arnaout R, Mofrad M, Arnaout R.
    40. Neuregulin-1 is essential for nerve plexus formation during cardiac maturation. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Medicine. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.13408. 2017. Brown D, Samsa L, Ito C, Ma H, Arnaout R, Qian L, Liu J.
    41. A mutation in the atrial-specific myosin light chain gene (MYL4) causes familial atrial fibrillation. Nat Commun. 2016 Apr 12; 7:11303. Orr N, Arnaout R, Gula LJ, Spears DA, Leong-Sit P, Li Q, Tarhuni W, Reischauer S, Chauhan VS, Borkovich M, Uppal S, Adler A, Coughlin SR, Stainier DYR, Gollob MH. PMID: 27066836; PMCID: PMC4832069.
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    42. Recovery of adult zebrafish hearts for high-throughput applications. J Vis Exp. 2014 Dec 12; (94). Arnaout R, Reischauer S, Stainier DY. PMID: 25548868; PMCID: PMC4396955.
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    43. Actin binding GFP allows 4D in vivo imaging of myofilament dynamics in the zebrafish heart and the identification of Erbb2 signaling as a remodeling factor of myofibril architecture. Circ Res. 2014 Oct 24; 115(10):845-56. Reischauer S, Arnaout R, Ramadass R, Stainier DY. PMID: 25228389; PMCID: PMC4371144.
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    44. Developmental biology: physics adds a twist to gut looping. Curr Biol. 2011 Oct 25; 21(20):R854-7. Arnaout R, Stainier DY. PMID: 22032191.
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    45. Late Recognition of Malignant Vasovagal Syncope. Card Electrophysiol Clin. 2010 Jun; 2(2):281-283. Arnaout R, Thorson A. PMID: 28770764.
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    46. Genetic and physiologic dissection of the vertebrate cardiac conduction system. PLoS Biol. 2008 May 13; 6(5):e109. Chi NC, Shaw RM, Jungblut B, Huisken J, Ferrer T, Arnaout R, Scott I, Beis D, Xiao T, Baier H, Jan LY, Tristani-Firouzi M, Stainier DY. PMID: 18479184; PMCID: PMC2430899.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 110     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    47. Zebrafish model for human long QT syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 03; 104(27):11316-21. Arnaout R, Ferrer T, Huisken J, Spitzer K, Stainier DY, Tristani-Firouzi M, Chi NC. PMID: 17592134; PMCID: PMC2040896.
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