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ArticleNature communications2025

Self-supervised learning for label-free segmentation in cardiac ultrasound.

Danielle L Ferreira, Connor Lau, Zaynaf Salaymang, Rima Arnaout

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. EchoVisuALL: From Echocardiography to Gene Discovery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Are AI Foundation Models Efficient for Segmentation of Echocardiograms?Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography · 2025
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  7. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  8. ChatGPT Helped Me Write This Talk Title, but Can It Read an Echocardiogram?Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Danielle L FerreiraDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6088-9655
Connor LauDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Zaynaf SalaymangDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Rima ArnaoutDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA. rima.arnaout@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7134-0040

Funding

Toward efficient performance for deep learning on medical imagingR01HL150394 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Rima Arnaout · 2020 to 2026
$6.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL150394U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01HL150394
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Segmentation and measurement of cardiac chambers from ultrasound is critical, but laborious and poorly reproducible. Neural networks can assist, but supervised approaches require the same problematic manual annotations. We build a pipeline for self-supervised segmentation combining computer vision, clinical knowledge, and deep learning. We train on 450 echocardiograms and test on 18,423 echocardiograms (including external data), using the resulting segmentations to calculate measurements. Coefficient of determination (r

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EchocardiographyHeartHeart VentriclesImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSupervised Machine LearningDeep LearningFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNeural Networks, ComputerReproducibility of Results

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PMID40307208
PMCPMC12043926

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