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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…

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The electrocardiogram (ECG) records electrical signals in a non-invasive way to observe the condition of the heart, typically looking at the heart from 12 different directions. Several types of the cardiac disease are diagnosed by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yong-Yeon Jo , Young Sang Choi , Jong-Hwan Jang , Joon-Myoung Kwon

The generation of virtual populations (VPs) of anatomy is essential for conducting in silico trials of medical devices. Typically, the generated VP should capture sufficient variability while remaining plausible and should reflect the…

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We propose a method to classify cardiac pathology based on a novel approach to extract image derived features to characterize the shape and motion of the heart. An original semi-supervised learning procedure, which makes efficient use of a…

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Foundation models have recently gained significant attention because of their generalizability and adaptability across multiple tasks and data distributions. Although medical foundation models have emerged, solutions for cardiac imaging,…

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Cardio/cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) have become one of the major health issue in our societies. But recent studies show that the present pathology tests to detect CVD are ineffectual as they do not consider different stages of platelet…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) datasets tend to be highly imbalanced due to the scarcity of abnormal cases. Additionally, the use of real patients' ECGs is highly regulated due to privacy issues. Therefore, there is always a need for more ECG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Edmond Adib , Fatemeh Afghah , John J. Prevost

Congenital heart disease (CHD) encompasses a spectrum of cardiovascular structural abnormalities, often requiring customized treatment plans for individual patients. Computational modeling and analysis of these unique cardiac anatomies can…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-09 Fanwei Kong , Sascha Stocker , Perry S. Choi , Michael Ma , Daniel B. Ennis , Alison Marsden

Electrocardiography (ECG) is the clinical gold standard for cardiovascular disease (CVD) assessment, yet continuous monitoring is constrained by the need for dedicated hardware and trained personnel. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is ubiquitous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xiaocheng Fang , Jiarui Jin , Haoyu Wang , Che Liu , Jieyi Cai , Yujie Xiao , Guangkun Nie , Bo Liu , Shun Huang , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

Echocardiography is a critical tool for detecting heart diseases, yet its steep operational difficulty causes a shortage of skilled personnel. Probe guidance systems, which assist in acquiring high-quality images, offer a promising solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Teng Wang , Haojun Jiang , Yuxuan Wang , Zhenguo Sun , Yujiao Deng , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

We propose a method for synthesizing cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images with plausible heart pathologies and realistic appearances for the purpose of generating labeled data for the application of supervised deep-learning (DL) training.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Sina Amirrajab , Cristian Lorenz , Juergen Weese , Josien Pluim , Marcel Breeuwer

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of birth defect, impacting about 1% of live births worldwide. Echocardiography, the gold-standard diagnostic method, is costly and inaccessible in low-resource settings. Diagnosis is…

Automated generation of diagnostic pathology reports directly from whole slide images (WSIs) is an emerging direction in computational pathology. Translating high-resolution tissue patterns into clinically coherent text remains difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Noorul Wahab , Nasir Rajpoot

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging provides a comprehensive assessment of cardiac structure and function but remains constrained by high acquisition costs and reliance on expert annotations, limiting the availability of large-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Xiaocheng Fang , Zhengyao Ding , Guangkun Nie , Jieyi Cai , Yujie Xiao , Bo Liu , Jiarui Jin , Haoyu Wang , Shun Huang , Ting Chen , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

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

Electrocardiography (ECG) is a low-cost, widely used modality for diagnosing electrical abnormalities like atrial fibrillation by capturing the heart's electrical activity. However, it cannot directly measure cardiac morphological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Michelle Espranita Liman , Özgün Turgut , Alexander Müller , Eimo Martens , Daniel Rueckert , Philip Müller

We propose a novel anomaly detection method for echocardiogram videos. The introduced method takes advantage of the periodic nature of the heart cycle to learn three variants of a variational latent trajectory model (TVAE). While the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alain Ryser , Laura Manduchi , Fabian Laumer , Holger Michel , Sven Wellmann , Julia E. Vogt

Understanding the structure and motion of the heart is crucial for diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of global death. There is wide variation in cardiac shape and motion patterns, influenced by demographic,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mengyun Qiao , Kathryn A McGurk , Shuo Wang , Paul M. Matthews , Declan P O Regan , Wenjia Bai

The development of machine learning for cardiac care is severely hampered by privacy restrictions on sharing real patient electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Although generative AI offers a promising solution, the real-world use of existing…

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…

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