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Remote monitoring of cardiovascular diseases plays an essential role in early detection of abnormal cardiac function, enabling timely intervention, improved preventive care, and personalized patient treatment. Abnormalities in the heart…

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Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used tool for assessing cardiac function due to its low cost and accessibility. Emergent research shows that ECGs can help make predictions on key outcomes traditionally derived from more complex…

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Echocardiography segmentation for cardiac analysis is time-consuming and resource-intensive due to the variability in image quality and the necessity to process scans from various standard views. While current automated segmentation methods…

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Electrocardiogram (ECG), a non-invasive and affordable tool for cardiac monitoring, is highly sensitive in detecting acute heart attacks. However, due to the lengthy nature of ECG recordings, numerous machine learning methods have been…

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Cardiovascular diseases, particularly heart failure, are a leading cause of death globally. The early detection of heart failure through routine echocardiogram screenings is often impeded by the high cost and labor-intensive nature of these…

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Current deep learning algorithms designed for automatic ECG analysis have exhibited notable accuracy. However, akin to traditional electrocardiography, they tend to be narrowly focused and typically address a singular diagnostic condition.…

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Cardiac motion tracking from echocardiography can be used to estimate and quantify myocardial motion within a cardiac cycle. It is a cost-efficient and effective approach for assessing myocardial function. However, ultrasound imaging has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Long Teng , Wei Feng , Menglong Zhu , Xinchao Li

Echocardiography is the most widely used imaging to monitor cardiac functions, serving as the first line in early detection of myocardial ischemia and infarction. However, echocardiography often suffers from several artifacts including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Ilke Adalioglu , Serkan Kiranyaz , Mete Ahishali , Aysen Degerli , Tahir Hamid , Rahmat Ghaffar , Ridha Hamila , Moncef Gabbouj

An important paradigm in smart health is developing diagnosis tools and monitoring a patient's heart activity through processing Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is a key example, sue to high mortality rate of heart-related disease. However,…

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Intra-cardiac echocardiography (ICE) is a crucial imaging modality used in electrophysiology (EP) and structural heart disease (SHD) interventions, providing realtime, high-resolution views from within the heart. Despite its advantages,…

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Reliable interpretation of echocardiography (Echo) is crucial for assessing cardiac function, which demands clinicians to synchronously orchestrate multiple capabilities, including visual observation (eyes), manual measurement (hands), and…

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Echocardiography (echo) is the first imaging modality used when assessing cardiac function. The measurement of functional biomarkers from echo relies upon the segmentation of cardiac structures and deep learning models have been proposed to…

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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.…

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Echocardiogram video plays a crucial role in analysing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiac diseases. Current deep neural network methods primarily aim to enhance diagnosis accuracy by incorporating prior knowledge, such as segmenting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Jiewen Yang , Yiqun Lin , Bin Pu , Jiarong Guo , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaomeng Li

Heart diseases are the main international cause of human defunction. According to the WHO, nearly 18 million people decease each year because of heart diseases. Also considering the increase of medical data, much pressure is put on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Andrés Bell-Navas , Nourelhouda Groun , María Villalba-Orero , Enrique Lara-Pezzi , Jesús Garicano-Mena , Soledad Le Clainche

Purpose: Echocardiographic interpretation requires video-level reasoning and guideline-based measurement analysis, which current deep learning models for cardiac ultrasound do not support. We present EchoAgent, a framework that enables…

Electrocardiogram (ECG)-based models have achieved strong performance in diagnostic tasks, yet they remain limited in modeling how cardiac dynamics evolve under external interventions. In particular, existing approaches focus primarily on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhikang Chen , Yue Wang , Sen Cui , Yu Zhang , Changshui Zhang , Tianling Ren , Tingting Zhu

Cardiac biosignals, such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and photoplethysmograms (PPG), are of paramount importance for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of cardiovascular diseases, and have been extensively used in a variety of…

Ultrasound imaging of the heart (echocardiography) is widely used to diagnose cardiac diseases. However, obtaining an echocardiogram requires an expert sonographer and a high-quality ultrasound imaging device, which are generally only…

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