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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Assessment of an Artificial Intelligence Tool for Estimating Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Echocardiograms from Apical and Parasternal Long-Axis Views.

Roberto Vega, Cherise Kwok, Abhilash Rakkunedeth Hareendranathan, Arun Nagdev, Jacob L Jaremko

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Roberto VegaExo Imaging, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA.
Cherise KwokDepartment of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
Abhilash Rakkunedeth HareendranathanDepartment of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
Arun NagdevAlameda Health System, Highland General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Jacob L JaremkoDepartment of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5314-2297

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This work aims to evaluate the performance of a new artificial intelligence tool (ExoAI) to compute the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in echocardiograms of the apical and parasternal long axis (PLAX) views. We retrospectively gathered echocardiograms from 441 individual patients (70% male, age: 67.3 ± 15.3, weight: 87.7 ± 25.4, BMI: 29.5 ± 7.4) and computed the ejection fraction in each echocardiogram using the ExoAI algorithm. We compared its performance against the ejection fraction from the clinical report. ExoAI achieved a root mean squared error of 7.58% in A2C, 7.45% in A4C, and 7.29% in PLAX, and correlations of 0.79, 0.75, and 0.89, respectively. As for the detection of low EF values (EF < 50%), ExoAI achieved an accuracy of 83% in A2C, 80% in A4C, and 91% in PLAX. Our results suggest that ExoAI effectively estimates the LVEF and it is an effective tool for estimating abnormal ejection fraction values (EF < 50%). Importantly, the PLAX view allows for the estimation of the ejection fraction when it is not feasible to acquire apical views (e.g., in ICU settings where it is not possible to move the patient to obtain an apical scan).

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artificial intelligenceechocardiogramleft ventricular ejection fractionmachine learningultrasound imaging

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