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.
arXiv:2610.05603v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Echocardiography is the most widely used cardiac imaging modality, yet interpretation demands integrating visual evidence across global anatomy, lo...
By Sheng Cheng, Donnchadh M. O'Sullivan, Daniel J. Penny, Craig G. Rusin, Minh B. Nguyen, Devika Subramanian
arXiv:2605.05447v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce EchoXFlow, a clinical echocardiography dataset with ultrasound in its native acquisition geometry. Existing public datasets offer limi...
By Elias Stenhede, Joanna Sulkowska, Eivind Bj{\o}rkan Orstad, Henrik Schirmer, Arian Ranjbar
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.
By Yingyu Yang, Qianye Yang, Can Peng, Elena D'Alberti, Olga Patey, Aris T. Papageorghiou, J. Alison Noble
arXiv:2608. 01677v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Myocardial strain analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images provides an important tool for evaluating cardiac function.
By Rishov Paul, Frederick H. Epstein, Miaomiao Zhang
arXiv:2609.09577v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Myocardial strain from echocardiography is a key biomarker for cardiac function. Recent deep learning methods show strong performance for myocardial...
By Thierry Judge, Nicolas Duchateau, Andreas {\O}stvik, Havard Dalen, Bj{\o}rnar Grenne, Pierre-Yves Courand, Lasse Lovstakken, Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Olivier Bernard