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Tissue tracking in echocardiography is challenging due to the complex cardiac motion and the inherent nature of ultrasound acquisitions. Although optical flow methods are considered state-of-the-art (SOTA), they struggle with long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Md Abulkalam Azad , Artem Chernyshov , John Nyberg , Ingrid Tveten , Lasse Lovstakken , Håvard Dalen , Bjørnar Grenne , Andreas Østvik

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

Echocardiography (ECHO) is essential for cardiac assessments, but its video quality and interpretation heavily relies on manual expertise, leading to inconsistent results from clinical and portable devices. ECHO video generation offers a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Yiwei Li , Sekeun Kim , Zihao Wu , Hanqi Jiang , Yi Pan , Pengfei Jin , Sifan Song , Yucheng Shi , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li

We introduce EchoXFlow, a clinical echocardiography dataset for learning from ultrasound in its native acquisition geometry rather than from scan-converted Cartesian videos. Existing public datasets offer limited opportunities to study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Elias Stenhede , Joanna Sulkowska , Eivind Bjørkan Orstad , Henrik Schirmer , Arian Ranjbar

Advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced medical image analysis, yet the availability of large-scale medical datasets remains constrained by patient privacy concerns. We present EchoFlow, a novel framework designed to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hadrien Reynaud , Alberto Gomez , Paul Leeson , Qingjie Meng , Bernhard Kainz

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

Echocardiography (echo) is an ultrasound imaging modality that is widely used for various cardiovascular diagnosis tasks. Due to inter-observer variability in echo-based diagnosis, which arises from the variability in echo image acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Masoud Mokhtari , Neda Ahmadi , Teresa S. M. Tsang , Purang Abolmaesumi , Renjie Liao

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

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,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Jaeyoung Huh , Paul Klein , Gareth Funka-Lea , Puneet Sharma , Ankur Kapoor , Young-Ho Kim

Eye trackers can provide visual guidance to sonographers during ultrasound (US) scanning. Such guidance is potentially valuable for less experienced operators to improve their scanning skills on how to manipulate the probe to achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Qianhui Men , Clare Teng , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

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

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

Accurate prediction of cardiovascular diseases remains imperative for early diagnosis and intervention, necessitating robust and precise predictive models. Recently, there has been a growing interest in multi-modal learning for uncovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Francesco Girlanda , Olga Demler , Bjoern Menze , Neda Davoudi

Echocardiography (ECHO) video is widely used for cardiac examination. In clinical, this procedure heavily relies on operator experience, which needs years of training and maybe the assistance of deep learning-based systems for enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xinrui Zhou , Yuhao Huang , Wufeng Xue , Haoran Dou , Jun Cheng , Han Zhou , Dong Ni

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most convenient and non-invasive tools for monitoring peoples' heart condition, which can use for diagnosing a wide range of heart diseases, including Cardiac Arrhythmia, Acute Coronary Syndrome, et al.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Shenda Hong , Zhaoji Fu , Rongbo Zhou , Jie Yu , Yongkui Li , Kai Wang , Guanlin Cheng

Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring is one of the most powerful technique of cardiovascular disease (CVD) early identification, and the introduction of intelligent wearable ECG devices has enabled daily monitoring. However, due to the need…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Hongxiang Gao , Xingyao Wang , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Jianqing Li , Chengyu Liu

Self-recording eating behaviors is a step towards a healthy lifestyle recommended by many health professionals. However, the current practice of manually recording eating activities using paper records or smartphone apps is often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Vineet Parikh , Saif Mahmud , Devansh Agarwal , Ke Li , François Guimbretière , Cheng Zhang

Echocardiography is critical for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, yet the shortage of skilled sonographers hinders timely patient care, due to high operational difficulties. Consequently, research on automated probe navigation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Teng Wang , Haojun Jiang , Chenxi Li , Diwen Wang , Yihang Tang , Zhenguo Sun , Yujiao Deng , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Echocardiography provides an important tool for clinicians to observe the function of the heart in real time, at low cost, and without harmful radiation. Automated localization and classification of heart valves enables automatic extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Derya Gol Gungor , Bimba Rao , Cynthia Wolverton , Ismayil Guracar

Echocardiography interpretation requires integrating multi-view temporal evidence with quantitative measurements and guideline-grounded reasoning, yet existing foundation-model pipelines largely solve isolated subtasks and fail when tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Moein Heidari , Ali Mehrabian , Mohammad Amin Roohi , Wenjin Chen , David J. Foran , Jasmine Grewal , Ilker Hacihaliloglu