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Ultrasound (US) imaging is a critical tool in medical diagnostics, offering real-time visualization of physiological processes. One of its major advantages is its ability to capture temporal dynamics, which is essential for assessing motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yves Stebler , Thomas M. Sutter , Ece Ozkan , Julia E. Vogt

Cardiovascular diseases stand as the primary global cause of mortality. Among the various imaging techniques available for visualising the heart and evaluating its function, echocardiograms emerge as the preferred choice due to their safety…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Adil Dahlan , Cyril Zakka , Abhinav Kumar , Laura Tang , Rohan Shad , Robyn Fong , William Hiesinger

Accurate and consistent predictions of echocardiography parameters are important for cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment. In particular, segmentations of the left ventricle can be used to derive ventricular volume, ejection fraction (EF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Sarina Thomas , Andrew Gilbert , Guy Ben-Yosef

We present an automatic method to describe clinically useful information about scanning, and to guide image interpretation in ultrasound (US) videos of the fetal heart. Our method is able to jointly predict the visibility, viewing plane,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Weilin Huang , Christopher P. Bridge , J. Alison Noble , Andrew Zisserman

Purpose: Echocardiography is commonly used as a non-invasive imaging tool in clinical practice for the assessment of cardiac function. However, delineation of the left ventricle is challenging due to the inherent properties of ultrasound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Deepa Krishnaswamy , Abhilash R. Hareendranathan , Tan Suwatanaviroj , Pierre Boulanger , Harald Becher , Michelle Noga , Kumaradevan Punithakumar

The echocardiographic measurement of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is fundamental to the diagnosis and classification of patients with heart failure (HF). In order to quantify LVEF automatically and accurately, this paper…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently proven their excellent ability to segment 2D cardiac ultrasound images. However, the majority of attempts to perform full-sequence segmentation of cardiac ultrasound videos either rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Phi Nguyen Van , Hieu Pham Huy , Long Tran Quoc

Cardiac function assessment aims at predicting left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) given an echocardiogram video, which requests models to focus on the changes in the left ventricle during the cardiac cycle. How to assess cardiac…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Guanqi Chen , Guanbin Li

Echocardiography video is a primary modality for diagnosing heart diseases, but the limited data poses challenges for both clinical teaching and machine learning training. Recently, video generative models have emerged as a promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Junxuan Yu , Rusi Chen , Yongsong Zhou , Yanlin Chen , Yaofei Duan , Yuhao Huang , Han Zhou , Tan Tao , Xin Yang , Dong Ni

Ejection fraction (EF) of the left ventricle (LV) is considered as one of the most important measurements for diagnosing acute heart failure and can be estimated during cardiac ultrasound acquisition. While recent successes in deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sarina Thomas , Qing Cao , Anna Novikova , Daria Kulikova , Guy Ben-Yosef

We propose an algorithm for electrocardiogram (ECG) segmentation using a UNet-like full-convolutional neural network. The algorithm receives an arbitrary sampling rate ECG signal as an input, and gives a list of onsets and offsets of P and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Viktor Moskalenko , Nikolai Zolotykh , Grigory Osipov

Image synthesis is expected to provide value for the translation of machine learning methods into clinical practice. Fundamental problems like model robustness, domain transfer, causal modelling, and operator training become approachable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hadrien Reynaud , Mengyun Qiao , Mischa Dombrowski , Thomas Day , Reza Razavi , Alberto Gomez , Paul Leeson , Bernhard Kainz

Accurate identification of arteries and veins in ultrasound images is crucial for vascular examinations and interventions in robotics-assisted surgeries. However, current methods for ultrasound vessel segmentation face challenges in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Yimeng Geng , Gaofeng Meng , Mingcong Chen , Guanglin Cao , Mingyang Zhao , Jianbo Zhao , Hongbin Liu

Echocardiography records ultrasound videos of the heart, enabling clinicians to assess cardiac function. Recent advances in large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have spurred interest in automating echocardiographic interpretation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ryo Takizawa , Satoshi Kodera , Tempei Kabayama , Ryo Matsuoka , Yuta Ando , Yuto Nakamura , Haruki Settai , Norihiko Takeda

Delineation of the cardiac structures from 2D echocardiographic images is a common clinical task to establish a diagnosis. Over the past decades, the automation of this task has been the subject of intense research. In this paper, we…

Congenital heart disease remains the most common congenital anomaly and a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Although first-trimester fetal echocardiography offers an opportunity for earlier detection, automated analysis at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Youssef Megahed , Aylin Erman , Robin Ducharme , Mark C. Walker , Steven Hawken , Adrian D. C. Chan

Cardiac imaging known as echocardiography is a non-invasive tool utilized to produce data including images and videos, which cardiologists use to diagnose cardiac abnormalities in general and myocardial infarction (MI) in particular.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Oumaima Hamila , Sheela Ramanna , Christopher J. Henry , Serkan Kiranyaz , Ridha Hamila , Rashid Mazhar , Tahir Hamid

Medical image analysis, especially segmenting a specific organ, has an important role in developing clinical decision support systems. In cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, segmenting the left and right ventricles helps physicians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Mina Nasr-Esfahani , Majid Mohrekesh , Mojtaba Akbari , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Focused transmits are the most commonly used transmit strategy for echocardiograms, but suffer from relatively low frame rates, and in 3D, even lower volume rates. Fast imaging based on unfocused transmits has disadvantages such as motion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Wessel L. van Nierop , Oisín Nolan , Tristan S. W. Stevens , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

One of the core components of conventional (i.e., non-learned) video codecs consists of predicting a frame from a previously-decoded frame, by leveraging temporal correlations. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end learned system for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Nannan Zou , Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Jani Lainema , Emre Aksu , Miska Hannuksela , Esa Rahtu