Deep learning interpretation of echocardiograms

• Published in: NPJ digital medicine Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 10
• Main Authors: Ghorbani, Amirata, Ouyang, David, Abid, Abubakar, He, Bryan, Chen, Jonathan H., Harrington, Robert A., Liang, David H., Ashley, Euan A., Zou, James Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 24.01.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/114/1305; 631/114/1564; 692/699/75; Biomedicine; Biotechnology; Deep learning; Digital technology; Health informatics; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Image processing; Cardiovascular diseases; Machine learning

Echocardiography uses ultrasound technology to capture high temporal and spatial resolution images of the heart and surrounding structures, and is the most common imaging modality in cardiovascular medicine. Using convolutional neural networks on a large new dataset, we show that deep learning appli...