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ArticlePeerJ. Computer science2025

Quantification of left ventricular mass in multiple views of echocardiograms using model-agnostic meta learning in a few-shot setting.

Yeong Hyeon Kim, Donghoon Kim, Jin Young Youm, Jiyoon Won, Seola Kim, Woohyun Park, Yisak Kim, Dongheon Lee

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Yeong Hyeon Kim *Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Donghoon Kim *Division of Pulmonary and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of South Korea.
Jin Young YoumDepartment of Radiological Science, Nambu University, Gwangju, Republic of South Korea.
Jiyoon WonDepartment of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Dong-Eui University, Busan, Republic of South Korea.
Seola KimMedical AI Division, Ziovision, Seoul, Republic of South Korea.ORCID 0009-0008-2733-9262
Woohyun ParkDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of South Korea.
Yisak KimInterdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-5420-1436
Dongheon LeeInterdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-3121-7099

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Background: Reliable measurement of left ventricular mass (LVM) in echocardiography is essential for early detection of left ventricular dysfunction, coronary artery disease, and arrhythmia risk, yet growing patient volumes have created critical shortage of experts in echocardiography. Recent deep learning approaches reduce inter-operator variability but require large, fully labeled datasets for each standard view-an impractical demand in many clinical settings. Methods: To overcome these limitations, we propose a heatmap-based point-estimation segmentation model trained Results: As a result, the proposed MAML methods demonstrated comparable performance using mean distance error, mean angle error, successful distance error and spatial angular similarity in a few-shot setting compared to models trained with larger labeled datasets for each view of the echocardiogram.

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EchocardiogramFew-shot learningLeft ventricular massModel-agnostic meta learningSegmentation

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