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. 2024 Aug 8;14(16):1719.
doi: 10.3390/diagnostics14161719.

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

Roberto Vega  1 , Cherise Kwok  2 , Abhilash Rakkunedeth Hareendranathan  2 , Arun Nagdev  3 , Jacob L Jaremko  2
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Assessment of an Artificial Intelligence Tool for Estimating Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Echocardiograms from Apical and Parasternal Long-Axis Views

Roberto Vega et al. Diagnostics (Basel). .

Abstract

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).

Keywords: artificial intelligence; echocardiogram; left ventricular ejection fraction; machine learning; ultrasound imaging.

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Conflict of interest statement

Roberto Vega and Arun Nagdev are employees of Exo Imaging, whose AI software (Santa Clara, CA, USA, version 2.1.0) was used to perform the experiments. The other authors, who declare no conflicts of interests, had full access to the data, results, experiment details and analysis of the results.

Figures

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Figure 1
Examples of the predicted contour (purple lines) and landmarks (yellow dots) of the left ventricle in different views: A4C (top left), A2C (top right), and PLAX (bottom).
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Figure 2
Linear regression analysis for the AI predictions and reference values.
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Figure 3
Bland–Altman plot for the AI predictions and reference values. The red lines represent the mean value, while the yellow lines represent the confidence intervals.
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