arXiv:2610.09397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) analysis relies on multi-frame sequences capturing the full cardiac cycle. However, standard multi-frame a...
arXiv:2606. 14759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cine cardiac magnetic resonance is the gold standard for assessing cardiac function, but the scarcity of public datasets limits the development of advanced data-driven models.
The paper introduces a self‑supervised method for detecting end‑diastole (ED) and end‑systole (ES) in echocardiography by constraining the latent motion to a single‑parameter orbit, effectively modeling cardiac phase as a one‑dimensional signal. This approach yields an interpretable representation that directly identifies ED and ES, improving ED localisation and matching ES performance compared to prior state‑of‑the‑art methods, while using fewer training epochs and a more constrained model. The method is trained on EchoNet‑Dynamic without annotations and the code is publicly available.
arXiv:2607. 00955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Implicit neural representations (INRs) are well suited to cardiac motion estimation, providing continuous, compact representations of motion fields.
The paper introduces a latent dynamical model that captures full‑cycle biventricular cardiac motion from cine MRI using a heart‑rate‑aware neural ODE and a graph‑based mesh autoencoder. It encodes ventricular anatomy and motion as a continuous latent trajectory, with a covariate‑conditioned prior for the end‑diastolic state and a Cox model linking deviations to incident heart failure. In a large UK Biobank cohort, adding the latent score to existing risk equations improved predictive performance, outperforming several established cardiac markers and alternative modeling approaches.
arXiv:2606. 26718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) captures rich spatiotemporal information about ventricular structure and motion, but conventional risk models use only a few image-derived indices from selected cardiac phases.
arXiv:2607. 00431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting models for health-signal digital twins must preserve the oscillatory, frequency, phase, and state-transition dynamics of physiological signals, yet the pointwise metrics used to benchmark them cannot detect when these fundamental properties are lost.
The paper introduces ORBIT, a self‑supervised method for detecting end‑diastolic and end‑systolic cardiac phases in fetal echocardiography without manual annotations. ORBIT learns a latent motion trajectory through registration, enabling orientation‑robust identification of phase transitions across diverse fetal heart positions. Evaluated on normal and congenital heart disease cases, it achieves low mean absolute errors (≈1.9–2.4 frames) and outperforms prior annotation‑free approaches that assume fixed orientations.
arXiv:2608. 12944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG), photoplethysmography (PPG), and phonocardiography (PCG) provide complementary views of the same cardiac cycle, yet existing cardiac foundation models are trained for a single sensing modality, leaving the shared physiology across sensors unexploited.
EchoDiST is an unsupervised framework for estimating myocardial motion in echocardiography, combining self‑distillation joint learning of anatomical segmentation and motion estimation with a diffusion‑conditioned network. The method uses limited anatomical annotations and stochastic perturbations during training, yet requires only a single deterministic forward pass at inference. Evaluated on three datasets, EchoDiST consistently outperforms seven other learning‑based approaches in anatomical alignment, strain assessment, and functional metrics, with statistically significant improvements across cross‑view and cross‑dataset tests.
arXiv:2608.24027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4D medical image interpolation aims to recover missing volumes from sparsely observed time points and is important for dynamic anatomical analysis in a...
EchoDiST is an unsupervised framework for estimating myocardial motion in echocardiography. It combines self‑distillation joint learning of anatomical segmentation and motion estimation with a diffusion‑conditioned network, requiring only limited anatomical annotations. The method achieves statistically significant improvements in anatomical alignment, strain assessment, and functional metrics across three datasets, outperforming seven other learning‑based approaches.