arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

FlowMoDL: Model-Based Deep Learning with Conjugate-Gradient Data Consistency for Highly Accelerated 4D Flow MRI Reconstruction

FlowMoDL is an unrolled neural network designed for highly accelerated 4D flow MRI reconstruction, optimizing both anatomical magnitude and phase-derived velocity accuracy. It alternates a learned (3+1)D spatiotemporal denoiser with conjugate‑gradient data‑consistency updates, using a dual‑pathway conditioning scheme to handle acceleration factors from 10× to 50×. Trained with a deep‑supervision composite loss that penalizes velocity magnitude and angular errors, FlowMoDL outperforms classical and deep‑learning baselines on the multi‑center CMRx4DFlow dataset, achieving superior gradient‑step efficiency and robust convergence across all acceleration factors.

By Tristan Gottwald, Michelle Bruch, Mubashir-Ul Hassan, Fatma Alickovic, Milan Kloiber, Daniel Tenbrinck, Torsten Panholzer, Melanie Schaller, Jana Hutter
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

Self-Supervised Cardiac Phase Detection via Single-Parameter Latent Orbits

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.

By John Bonnici, Matthew Baugh, Aleksandra Kulbaka, Sarah Cechnicka, Bernhard Kainz, Alberto Gomez
arXiv AI
Jun 26

A Latent ODE Approach to Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cine Cardiac MRI

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.

By David Br\"uggemann, Ekaterina Krymova, Firat \"Ozdemir, Jochen von Spiczak, Sebastian Kozerke, Samia Mora, Robert Manka, Mathieu Salzmann, Olga V. Demler
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

Echo-E$^3$Net: Efficient Endocardial Spatio-Temporal Network for Ejection Fraction Estimation

Echo-E$^3$Net is an anatomy‑guided spatio‑temporal neural network designed to estimate left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from ultrasound images. It uses a dual‑phase Endocardial Border Detector to locate end‑diastole and end‑systole landmarks and an Endocardial Feature Aggregator to fuse these landmarks with global deep‑feature descriptors for EF regression. The model achieves competitive accuracy on EchoNet‑Dynamic and EchoNet‑Pediatric datasets while using only 1.55 M parameters and 8.05 GFLOPs, enabling real‑time deployment on limited‑resource devices.

By Moein Heidari, Afshin Bozorgpour, AmirHossein Zarif-Fakharnia, Wenjin Chen, Dorit Merhof, David J. Foran, Jasmine Grewal, Ilker Hacihaliloglu