Table 3. Selected applications of ML algorithms applied to echocardiography.
Application | ML model | Training dataset | Testing dataset | AUC | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | Accuracy (%) | Publication (Ref. #) |
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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.