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. 2021 Jun;11(3):911–923. doi: 10.21037/cdt.2020.03.09

Table 3. Selected applications of ML algorithms applied to echocardiography.

Application ML model Training dataset Testing dataset AUC Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Accuracy (%) Publication (Ref. #)
Differentiating between HCM & physiologic hypertrophy SVM RF CNN 139 patients 0.80 96.0 77.0 Narula et al. (26)
Differentiating between HCM, cardiac amyloid and PAH CNN 12,035 studies 8,666 studies HCM 0.93, amyloid 0.87, PAH 0.85 84 Zhang et al. (27)
Differentiating between constrictive pericarditis & restrictive cardiomyopathy SVM KL CNN RF 94 patients 0.96 93.7 Sengupta et al. (28)
Classifying still echo image captures into apical 2 chamber, apical 4 chamber and apical long-axis view SVM KL RF CNN 210 clips 99 clips 95.0 Khamis et al. (29)
Classifying still echo image captures into 15 standard echo views CNN 240 patients 27 patients 91.7 Madani et al. (30)
Classifying echo studies according to the ASE/EACVI diagnostic algorithm for diastolic dysfunction severity CNN 6,182 studies 1,546 studies 99.0 Jiang et al. (31)
Assessment of myocardial velocity KL 55 patients 73.2 78.4 Sanchez-Martinez et al. (32)
Detecting wall motion abnormality CNN 61 patients 81.0 65.4 75.0 Omar et al. (33)
Quantifying MR SVM 5,004 clips 99.4 99.6 99.5 Moghaddasi et al. (34)

ML, machine learning; CNN, convolutional neural network; AUC, area under curve; SVM, support vector machine; RF, random forests; HCM, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; PAH, pulmonary arterial hypertension; MR, mitral regurgitation.