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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

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

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 segmentation of heart structures imaged by cardiac MR is key for the quantitative analysis of pathology. High-resolution 3D MR sequences enable whole-heart structural imaging but are time-consuming, expensive to acquire and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Carlo Biffi , Juan J. Cerrolaza , Giacomo Tarroni , Antonio de Marvao , Stuart A. Cook , Declan P. O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

Nowadays, an increasing number of people are being diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of death globally. The gold standard for identifying these heart problems is via electrocardiogram (ECG). The standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Khiem H. Le , Hieu H. Pham , Thao B. T. Nguyen , Tu A. Nguyen , Cuong D. Do

Cardiovascular disease accounts for 1 in every 4 deaths in United States. Accurate estimation of structural and functional cardiac parameters is crucial for both diagnosis and disease management. In this work, we develop an ensemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jiasha Liu , Xiang Li , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li

Myocardial characterization is essential for patients with myocardial infarction and other myocardial diseases, and the assessment is often performed using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) sequences. In this study, we propose a fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Xiaoran Zhang , Michelle Noga , Kumaradevan Punithakumar

Quantification of myocardial perfusion has the potential to improve detection of regional and global flow reduction. Significant effort has been made to automate the workflow, where one essential step is the arterial input function (AIF)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-11 Hui Xue , Ethan Tseng , Kristopher D Knott , Tushar Kotecha , Louise Brown , Sven Plein , Marianna Fontana , James C Moon , Peter Kellman

Cardiac left ventricular (LV) segmentation from short-axis MRI acquired 10 minutes after the injection of a contrast agent (LGE-MRI) is a necessary step in the processing allowing the identification and diagnosis of cardiac diseases such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Abdul Qayyum , Alain Lalande , Thomas Decourselle , Thibaut Pommier , Alexandre Cochet , Fabrice Meriaudeau

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used reliable, non-invasive approach for cardiovascular disease diagnosis. With the rapid growth of ECG examinations and the insufficiency of cardiologists, accurate and automatic diagnosis of ECG signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dongdong Zhang , Xiaohui Yuan , Ping Zhang

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death globally. Cardiac left ventricle (LV) quantification is known to be one of the most important tasks for the identification and diagnosis of such pathologies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Alejandro Debus , Enzo Ferrante

The goal of this project is to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to provide an end-to-end analytics pipeline for left and right ventricle (LV and RV) segmentation. Another aim of the project is to find a model that would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-19 Bosung Seo , Daniel Mariano , John Beckfield , Vinay Madenur , Yuming Hu , Tony Reina , Marcus Bobar , Mai H. Nguyen , Ilkay Altintas

Deep Learning (DL) methods have been used for electrocardiogram (ECG) processing in a wide variety of tasks, demonstrating good performance compared with traditional signal processing algorithms. These methods offer an efficient framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Adrian Atienza , Jakob Bardram , Sadasivan Puthusserypady

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Iman Islam , Esther Puyol-Antón , Bram Ruijsink , Andrew J. Reader , Andrew P. King

The segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) from CINE MRI images is essential to infer important clinical parameters. Typically, machine learning algorithms for automated LV segmentation use annotated contours from only two cardiac phases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Nicoló Savioli , Miguel Silva Vieira , Pablo Lamata , Giovanni Montana

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Sekeun Kim , Pengfei Jin , Sifan Song , Cheng Chen , Yiwei Li , Hui Ren , Xiang Li , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li

Automated segmentation of the left ventricular endocardium in echocardiography videos is a key research area in cardiology. It aims to provide accurate assessment of cardiac structure and function through Ejection Fraction (EF) estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dongfang Wang , Jian Yang , Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major pediatric health burden, and early screening is of critical importance. Electrocardiography (ECG), as a noninvasive and accessible tool, is well suited for this purpose. This paper presents the first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Yiqiao Chen

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

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital abnormality associated with birth defects in the United States. Despite training efforts and substantial advancement in ultrasound technology over the past years, CHD remains an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Ken C. L. Wong , Elena S. Sinkovskaya , Alfred Z. Abuhamad , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood