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. 2022 May 20;11(10):2893. doi: 10.3390/jcm11102893

Table 2.

Studies of AI’s Application in Left Ventricular Systolic Function—GLS.

Authors Year Task Models Dataset Results
Kawakami H. et al. [34] 2021 GLS assessment AutoStrain 561 subjects Automated vs. manual GLS: r = 0.685, bias = 0.99%.
Semi-automated vs. manual GLS: r = 0.848, bias = −0.90%.
Automated vs. semi-automated GLS: r = 0.775, bias = 1.89%.
Salte I.M. et al. [22] 2021 GLS assessment EchoPWC-Net 200 studies EchoPWC-Net vs. EchoPAC: r = 0.93, MD 0.3 ± 0.3%.
Evain E. et al. [36] 2022 GLS assessment PWC-Net >60,000 images Automated vs. Manual GLS: r = 0.77, MAE 2.5 ± 2.1%.
Narula S. et al. [25] 2016 Disease detection
(ATH vs. HCM)
Ensemble model
(SVM, RF, ANN)
77 ATH,
62 HCM patients
Sensitivity 0.96; specificity 0.77.
Sengupta P.P. et al. [26] 2016 Disease detection
(CP vs. RCM)
AMC 50 CP patients,
44 RCM patients, and 47 controls
AUC 0.96.
Zhang J. et al. [27] 2021 Disease detection(CHD) Two-step stacking 217 CHD patients,
207 controls
Sensitivity 0.903; specificity 0.843; AUC 0.904.
Loncaric F. et al. [37] 2021 Disease detection (HT) ML 189 HT patients,
97 controls
HT is divided into 4 phenotypes.
Yahav A. et al. [38] 2020 Disease detection
(strain curve classification)
ML 424 subjects Strain curve is divided into physiological, non-physiological, and uncertain categories (accuracy 86.4%).
Pournazari P. et al. [39] 2021 Prognosis analysis
(COVID-19)
ML 724 subjects BC (AUC 0.79). BC + Laboratory data + Vital signs (AUC 0.86). BC + Laboratory data + Vital signs + Echos (AUC 0.92).
Przewlocka-Kosmala M. et al. [40] 2019 Prognosis analysis (HFpEF) Clustering 177 HFpEF patients,
51 asymptomatic controls
HFpEF is divided into 3 prognostic phenotypes.

GLS, global longitudinal strain; MD, mean difference; MAE, mean absolute error; ATH, athletes; HCM, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; SVM, support vector machine; RF, random forest; ANN, artificial neural networks; CP, constrictive pericarditis; RCM, restrictive cardiomyopathy; AMC, associative memory classifier; AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; CHD, coronary heart disease; HT, hypertension; ML, machine learning; HFpEF, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; BC, baseline characteristics; Echos, echocardiographic measurements.