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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

Echocardiography is a vital non-invasive modality for cardiac assessment, with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) serving as a key indicator of heart function. Existing LVEF estimation methods depend on large-scale annotated video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yao Du , Jiarong Guo , Xiaomeng Li

Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of mortality. Accurately monitoring HF progress and adjust therapies are critical for improving patient outcomes. An experienced cardiologist can make accurate HF stage diagnoses based on combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Shuyu Lu , Ruoyu Chen , Wei Wei , Xinghua Lu

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a key diagnostic tool in cardiovascular health. Single-lead ECG recording is integrated into both clinical-grade and consumer wearables. While self-supervised pretraining of foundation models on unlabeled ECGs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuxuan Shu , Peter H. Charlton , Fahim Kawsar , Jussi Hernesniemi , Mohammad Malekzadeh

Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is the most important clinical parameter of cardiovascular function. The accuracy in estimating this parameter is highly dependent upon the precise segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Narjes Benameur , Ramzi Mahmoudi , Mohamed Deriche , Amira fayouka , Imene Masmoudi , Nessrine Zoghlami

The electrocardiogram or ECG has been in use for over 100 years and remains the most widely performed diagnostic test to characterize cardiac structure and electrical activity. We hypothesized that parallel advances in computing power,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Geoffrey H. Tison , Jeffrey Zhang , Francesca N. Delling , Rahul C. Deo

Ejection fraction (EF) is a key indicator of cardiac function, allowing identification of patients prone to heart dysfunctions such as heart failure. EF is estimated from cardiac ultrasound videos known as echocardiograms (echo) by manually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Masoud Mokhtari , Teresa Tsang , Purang Abolmaesumi , Renjie Liao

Background. Studies have shown that the conventional left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony (LVMD) parameters have their own statistical limitations. The purpose of this study is to extract new LVMD parameters from the phase analysis of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Zhuo He , Xinwei Zhang , Chen Zhao , Zhiyong Qian , Yao Wang , Xiaofeng Hou , Jiangang Zou , Weihua Zhou

Ventricular Fibrillation (VF), one of the most dangerous arrhythmias, is responsible for sudden cardiac arrests. Thus, various algorithms have been developed to predict VF from Electrocardiogram (ECG), which is a binary classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Saifur Rahman , M. Sohel Rahman

Cardiac disease evaluation depends on multiple diagnostic modalities: electrocardiogram (ECG) to diagnose abnormal heart rhythms, and imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and echocardiography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Evariste Njomgue Fotso , Buntheng Ly , Hubert Cochet , Maxime Sermesant

Timely access to laboratory values is critical for clinical decision-making, yet current approaches rely on invasive venous sampling and are intrinsically delayed. Electrocardiography (ECG), as a non-invasive and widely available signal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yujie Xiao , Gongzhen Tang , Wenhui Liu , Jun Li , Guangkun Nie , Zhuoran Kan , Deyun Zhang , Qinghao Zhao , Shenda Hong

Twelve-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) are the clinical gold standard for cardiac diagnosis, providing comprehensive spatial coverage of the heart necessary to detect conditions such as myocardial infarction (MI). However, their lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xinyan Guan , Yongfan Lai , Jiarui Jin , Jun Li , Haoyu Wang , Qinghao Zhao , Deyun Zhang , Shijia Geng , Shenda Hong

Heart failure remains a major public health challenge with growing costs. Ejection fraction (EF) is a key metric for the diagnosis and management of heart failure however estimation of EF using echocardiography remains expensive for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Walt Williams , Rohan Doshi , Yanran Li , Kexuan Liang

The state-of-the-art cardiovascular disease diagnosis techniques use machine-learning algorithms based on feature extraction and classification. In this work, in contrast to a conventional single Electrocardiogram (ECG) lead, two leads are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Cheng Guo , Sajid Ahmed , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is a commonly used tool for detecting cardiac abnormalities such as atrial fibrillation, blocks, and irregular complexes. For the PhysioNet/CinC 2020 Challenge, we built an algorithm using gradient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Alexander William Wong , Weijie Sun , Sunil Vasu Kalmady , Padma Kaul , Abram Hindle

Multimodal clinical prediction is widely used to integrate heterogeneous data such as Electronic Health Records (EHR) and biosignals. However, existing methods tend to rely on static modality integration schemes and simple fusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jongseok Kim , Seongae Kang , Jonghwan Shin , Yuhan Lee , Ohyun Jo

Objective. Arrhythmia classification from electrocardiograms (ECGs) suffers from high false positive rates and limited cross-dataset generalization, particularly for atrial fibrillation (AF) detection where specificity ranges from 0.72 to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Tiezhi Wang , Wilhelm Haverkamp , Nils Strodthoff

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain a vast amount of high-dimensional multi-modal data that can accurately represent a patient's medical history. Unfortunately, most of this data is either unstructured or semi-structured, rendering it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ashwyn Sharma , David I. Feldman , Aneesh Jain

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an authoritative source to diagnose and counter critical cardiovascular syndromes such as arrhythmia and myocardial infarction (MI). Current machine learning techniques either depend on manually extracted features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Zeeshan Ahmad , Anika Tabassum , Ling Guan , Naimul Khan

In clinical In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), identifying the most viable embryo for transfer is important to increasing the likelihood of a successful pregnancy. Traditionally, this process involves embryologists manually assessing embryos'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Junsik Kim , Zhiyi Shi , Davin Jeong , Johannes Knittel , Helen Y. Yang , Yonghyun Song , Wanhua Li , Yicong Li , Dalit Ben-Yosef , Daniel Needleman , Hanspeter Pfister