Machine Learning in Fetal Cardiology: What to Expect
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In fetal cardiology, imaging (especially echocardiography) has demonstrated to help in the diagnosis and monitoring of fetuses with a compromised cardiovascular system potentially associated with several fetal conditions. Different ultrasound approaches are currently used to evaluate fetal cardiac structure and function, including conventional 2-D imaging and M-mode and tissue Doppler imaging among others. However, assessment of the fetal heart is still challenging mainly due to involuntary movements of the fetus, the small size of the heart, and the lack of expertise in fetal echocardiography of some sonographers. Therefore, the use of new technologies to improve the primary acquired images, to help extract measurements, or to aid in the diagnosis of cardiac abnormalities is of great importance for optimal assessment of the fetal heart. Machine leaning (ML) is a computer science discipline focused on teaching a computer to perform tasks with specific goals without explicitly programming the rules on how to perform this task. In this review we provide a brief overview on the potential of ML techniques to improve the evaluation of fetal cardiac function by optimizing image acquisition and quantification/segmentation, as well as aid in improving the prenatal diagnoses of fetal cardiac remodeling and abnormalities.
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“However, these reviews are not comprehensive because they only target specific issues such as fetal cardiac function [24], Down syndrome [25], and the fetal central nervous system [26].”
BackgroundArtificial intelligence in obstetrics
Ahn, K. H., & Lee, K.-S. (2021) · Obstetrics & Gynecology Science · doi:10.5468/ogs.21234 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
“One example is the effort to detect changes in fetal heart structures or facial expressions using artificial intelligence technologies [64,65].”
Challenges of Developing Robust AI for Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
O’Sullivan, M., Considine, E. C., O’Riordan, M., Marnane, W. P., Rennie, J. M., & Boylan, G. B. (2021) · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · doi:10.3389/frai.2021.765210 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
Yasrab, R., Fu, Z., Zhao, H., Lee, L. H., Sharma, H., Drukker, L., Papageorgiou, A. T., & Noble, J. A. (2022) · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · doi:10.1109/tmi.2022.3226274 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
“In contrast, only a few first trimester US image analysis studies have been undertaken with a different focus: automated CRL and NT measurements [38], assessment of the maternal placenta [39], classification of fetal brain images [40] and fetal echocardiography [41].”
BackgroundGhi, T., Conversano, F., Ramirez Zegarra, R., Pisani, P., Dall'Asta, A., Lanzone, A., Lau, W., Vimercati, A., Iliescu, D. G., Mappa, I., et al. (2022) · Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology · doi:10.1002/uog.23739 · Cited by 32 · see citing works
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“To bridge the gap between clinical and echocardiographic data, the introduction of ML and deep learning algorithms can be of great assistance [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66].”
BackgroundChild and Maternal Mortality Risk Factor Analysis Using Machine Learning Approaches
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“Garcia-Canadilla and et al. studied [15] the use of machine learning in the field of fetal cardiology.”
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“Other potential applications for DL in CTG monitoring include automatic identification of the maternal heart rate and false signals [89] and facilitate the creation of fully automated and optimised end- to-end routines [90, 91].”
Ungureanu, A., Marcu, A., Patru, C., Ruican, D., Nagy, R. D., Stoean, R., Stoean, C., & Iliescu, D. G. (2023) · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · doi:10.1186/s12884-022-05204-x · Cited by 24 · see citing works
“These current approaches use Deep-Learning (DL) to diagnose CHD with FE [32–35] only for second-trimester screening.”
MethodIntelligent systems in obstetrics and midwifery: Applications of machine learning
Barbounaki, S. G., & Vivilaki, V. G. (2021) · European Journal of Midwifery · doi:10.18332/ejm/143166 · Cited by 23 · see citing works
“The use of ML techniques has also made a good impression in fetal cardiology monitoring, a quite demanding task, considering the small size of the fetus heart, its constant moving or even the lack of compatibility that several sonographers present with fetal echocardiography 22 .”
BackgroundMethodAuto-tuning Fixed-point Precision with TVM on RISC-V Packed SIMD Extension
Yang, C.-C., Chen, Y.-R., Liao, H.-H., et al. (2022) · ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems · doi:10.1145/3569939 · Cited by 22 · see citing works
“DL is a subset of machine learning (ML) based on neural networks that is used to analyze diferent factors with a certain structure[13].”
BackgroundDay, T. G., Budd, S., Tan, J., Matthew, J., Skelton, E., Jowett, V., Lloyd, D. F. A., Gómez, A., Hajnal, J. V., Razavi, R., et al. (2023) · Prenatal Diagnosis · doi:10.1002/pd.6445 · Cited by 22 · see citing works
“8 11 There is a paucity of information about the impact that AI might have on current CHD screening programmes.”
BackgroundProspective Artificial Intelligence to Dissect the Dengue Immune Response and Discover Therapeutics
Natali, E. N., Babrak, L. M., & Miho, E. (2021) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.574411 · Cited by 21 · see citing works
“Machine leaning (ML) is a computer science discipline and a subset of AI focused on teaching a computer to perform tasks with speci fi c goals without explicitly programming the rules on how to perform this task (87).”
BackgroundAn ensemble-based stage-prediction machine learning approach for classifying fetal disease
Dash, D., & Kumar, M. (2024) · Healthcare Analytics · doi:10.1016/j.health.2024.100322 · Cited by 21 · see citing works
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The Diagnostic Yield of Fetal Echocardiography Indications in the Current Era
Boehme, C., Fruitman, D. S., Eckersley, L., Low, R. A., Bennett, J., McBrien, A., Alvarez, S. G. V., Pastuck, M., & Hornberger, L. K. (2021) · Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography · doi:10.1016/j.echo.2021.09.005 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
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“…with high demand for ML. Recent advances in ML and state-of-the-art deep learning for cardiology have been high-lighted in the literature, 6,7 including accurate quanti fi cation of cardiac functions, cardiovascular disease diagnosis, early risk identi fi cation, and detection of…”
BackgroundMethodRane, N. L., Choudhary, S., & Rane, J. (2023) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.4637894 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
A deep learning framework for noninvasive fetal ECG signal extraction
Wahbah, M., Zitouni, M. S., Sakaji, R. A., Funamoto, K., Widatalla, N., Krishnan, A. N., Kimura, Y., & Khandoker, A. H. (2024) · Frontiers in Physiology · doi:10.3389/fphys.2024.1329313 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Robertis, V. D., Stampalija, T., Abuhamad, A., Bosco, M., Chaoui, R., Formigoni, C., Moon‐Grady, A. J., Paladini, D., Pilu, G., Ramezzana, I. G., et al. (2025) · Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology · doi:10.1002/uog.29224 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Weichert, J., Welp, A., Scharf, J. L., Dracopoulos, C., Becker, W.-H., & Gembicki, M. (2021) · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · doi:10.1055/a-1522-3029 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
“Another difference to postnatal echocardiography is that the relative orientation and position of the heart in the image in relation to the position of the foetus in the uterus can vary considerably, further complicating image analysis [55,56].”
Akmal, H., Hardalaç, F., & Ayturan, K. (2023) · Diagnostics · doi:10.3390/diagnostics13111931 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Gudigar, A., Raghavendra, U., Samanth, J., Vasudeva, A., Ashwal, A. J., Nayak, K., Tan, R., Ciaccio, E. J., Ooi, C. P., Barua, P. D., et al. (2022) · Informatics · doi:10.3390/informatics9020034 · Cited by 15 · see citing works
Gudigar, A., Samanth, J., Raghavendra, U., Dharmik, C., Vasudeva, A., Ramachandran, P., Tan, R., Ciaccio, E. J., Molinari, F., & Acharya, U. R. (2020) · IEEE Access · doi:10.1109/access.2020.3042594 · Cited by 15 · see citing works
“Many recent studies have proposed accurate CAD models using US images [15]–[23].”
BackgroundAn improved semantic segmentation with region proposal network for cardiac defect interpretation
Nurmaini, S., Tama, B. A., Rachmatullah, M. N., Darmawahyuni, A., Sapitri, A. I., Firdaus, F., & Tutuko, B. (2022) · Neural Computing and Applications · doi:10.1007/s00521-022-07217-1 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
“The most common types of cardiac defects are atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD), and atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) [1].”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialDeVore, G. R., Cuneo, B. F., Sklansky, M., & Satou, G. M. (2022) · Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine · doi:10.1002/jum.16060 · Cited by 13 · see citing works
“Investigators have suggested that AI could be used to identify fetal cardiac anatomy and make the corresponding measurements of ventricular size and shape.(26) These and other studies would suggest that the Figure 3.”
MethodApplications of artificial intelligence-powered prenatal diagnosis for congenital heart disease
Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Zhu, H., Jia, B., Wang, J., He, Y., & Zhang, H. (2024) · Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine · doi:10.3389/fcvm.2024.1345761 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
A second look at intrapartum fetal surveillance and future directions
Ugwumadu, A. H. N., & Arulkumaran, S. (2022) · Journal of Perinatal Medicine · doi:10.1515/jpm-2022-0292 · Cited by 13 · see citing works
“…no reduction in adverse perinatal outcomes including neonatal acidosis, seizures, death, unnecessary interventions, or neonatal intensive care admissions, suggesting the need for the capability to analyse features, which are not obvious to the human for these systems to be effective [57 – 59].”
Automated Recognition of Ultrasound Cardiac Views Based on Deep Learning with Graph Constraint
Gao, Y., Zhu, Y., Liu, B., Hu, Y., Yu, G., & Guo, Y. (2021) · Diagnostics · doi:10.3390/diagnostics11071177 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
“The other applications are the fetuses and neonates, including quality control of fetal ultrasound and standard views of the fetus[17][18][19][20].”
BackgroundTurkan, M., Dandıl, E., Urfalı, F. E., & Korkmaz, M. (2025) · IEEE Access · doi:10.1109/access.2025.3553548 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
“However, it has been shown that the evaluation of fetal cardiography is difficult due to the involuntary movements of the fetus, the very small size of the heart and the lack of expertise and experience in fetal cardiography [35].”
Srivastava, S., Vidyarthi, A., & Jain, S. (2023) · Image and Vision Computing · doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2023.104725 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
A comprehensive scoping review on machine learning-based fetal echocardiography analysis
Hernandez-Cruz, N., Patey, O. V., Teng, C., Papageorghiou, A. T., & Noble, J. A. (2025) · Computers in Biology and Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.109666 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
Artificial intelligence in fetal echocardiography: Recent advances and future prospects
Ma, M., Sun, L., Chen, R., Zhu, J., & Zhao, B. (2024) · IJC Heart & Vasculature · doi:10.1016/j.ijcha.2024.101380 · Cited by 13 · see citing works
“In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of fetal cardiac ultrasound has enabled automated and standardized display of each diagnostic section of the fetal heart and accurate diagnosis, which is expected to reduce the dependence on operator experience [9].”
BackgroundSapitri, A. I., Nurmaini, S., Sukemi, S., Rachmatullah, M. N., & Darmawahyuni, A. (2021) · IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence · doi:10.11591/ijai.v10.i3.pp553-562 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
“However, the hole detection of AVSD is still a challenging task due to the small size of the heart or unintentional fetal movements [4].”
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“Artificial intelligence in the near future may overcome this inherent limitation of prenatal ultrasonography.(25,26) Furthermore the”
BackgroundSonographer interaction with artificial intelligence: collaboration or conflict?
Day, T. G., Matthew, J., Budd, S., Hajnal, J. V., Simpson, J. M., Razavi, R., & Kainz, B. (2023) · Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology · doi:10.1002/uog.26238 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
Ontologies, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Obstetrics
Malgieri, L. E. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-10067-3_3 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
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“It has been demonstrated that deep learning (DL) systems have good sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome [3,4].”
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“While machine learning-based CTG interpretation has yet to be shown to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes compared with expert interpretation [6], their use cases as screening and decision support tools remain valid due to the large CTG data volume anticipated to be generated by intermittent…”
Accurately assessing congenital heart disease using artificial intelligence
Khan, K., Ullah, F., Syed, I., & Ali, H. (2024) · PeerJ Computer Science · doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.2535 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
Role of Artificial Intelligence in Congenital Heart Disease and Interventions
Holt, D. B., El‐Bokl, A., Stromberg, D., & Taylor, M. D. (2025) · Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · doi:10.1016/j.jscai.2025.102567 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
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“Moreover, classic data augmentation methods already have good performance 86 .”
Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Toxicology
Sinha, M., Praveen, G. B., Sachan, D. K., & Parthasarathi, R. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58080-3_137-1 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
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“these observations are corroborated by 2 retrospective clinical cohort studies that evaluated clinical outcomes in patients who underwent combined transforaminal endoscopic decompression with simultaneous placement of an iPs.(33,158) another 2year followup study performed by this team of authors on simultaneous Table…”
ResultWhat Does Fetal Echocardiography Add Beyond the Anomaly Scan?
Simpson, J. M., & Hornberger, L. K. (2022) · Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging · doi:10.1161/circimaging.122.014168 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
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A Machine Learning–Based Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) Prediction Model for Newborns
Deval, R., Saxena, P., Pradhan, D., Mishra, A. K., & Jain, A. K. (2022) · The Indian Journal of Pediatrics · doi:10.1007/s12098-022-04273-2 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Prediction of Late Intrauterine Growth Restriction using Machine Learning Models
Magboo, V. P. C., & Magboo, M. S. A. (2022) · Procedia Computer Science · doi:10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.199 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
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Keeping the Ductus Arteriosus Patent: Current Strategy and Perspectives
Chatziantoniou, A., Rorris, F., Samanidis, G., & Kanakis, M. A. (2025) · Diagnostics · doi:10.3390/diagnostics15030241 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
“…congenital heart disease in fetal life, either by identification of reverse flow in the aortic arch or the ductus arteriosus or through a deep learning artificial intelligence software that processes acquired ultrasound images with results close to those of experienced sonographers [45–47].”
Künstliche Intelligenz in der pränatalen kardialen Diagnostik
Weichert, J., Welp, A., Scharf, J. L., Dracopoulos, C., Rody, A., & Gembicki, M. (2021) · Der Gynäkologe · doi:10.1007/s00129-021-04890-6 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
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Machine Learning for Ischaemic Heart Disease Diagnostic Analysis
Xing, R., & Meng, J. (2022) · IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS) · doi:10.1109/ecbios54627.2022.9944997 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
“ML techniques also have the potential to improve the diagnoses of foetal cardiac function and remodelling by optimising image acquisition and quantification [6].”
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Deep Learning Approach for Fetal Health Prediction
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Prediction of Fetal Abnormalities at early stage with GradientBoosting and Polynomial Feature
Khan, A., Singh, A. K., Lohith Datta, M., Bagepalli, A. R., Dinesh, P., & Pokalkar, D. (2022) · International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT) · doi:10.1109/icccnt54827.2022.9984319 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
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MethodApplications of Text Generation in Digital Marketing: a review
Loukili, S., Fennan, A., & Elaachak, L. (2023) · International Conference on Networking, Information Systems & Security (NISS) · doi:10.1145/3607720.3608451 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
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Ethical Considerations in Fetal Cardiology
Samples, S. M., Gandhi, R., Woo, J. L., & Patel, A. (2024) · Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease · doi:10.3390/jcdd11060172 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
“Machine learning may also one day help improve the evaluation of fetal cardiac structures by optimizing image acquisition and quantification, thereby improving prenatal diagnosis capabilities [17].”
BackgroundImplementation of resource-efficient fetal echocardiography detection algorithms in edge computing
Zhu, Y., Gao, Y. D., Wang, M., Li, M., & Wang, K. (2024) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0305250 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
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Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Toxicology
Sinha, M., Praveen, G. B., Sachan, D. K., & Parthasarathi, R. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64573-1_137 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Congenital Heart Diseases in Pregnancy
Bernolian, N., Partan, R. U., Nurmaini, S., Kesty, C., & Widodo, B. W. (2021) · Bioscientia Medicina Journal of Biomedicine and Translational Research · doi:10.32539/bsm.v5i4.376 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
“Cited from: Garcia-Canadilla et al., 2020 Machine learning is capable of identifying fetal cardiac features, assisting segmentation and measurement of cardiac structures, and distinguishing normal cardiac shape from data pool, especially when used in a supervised learning format.36…”
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Hardalaç, F., Akmal, H., Ayturan, K., et al. (2022) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.4197627 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
A Review of AI-Based Approaches for Suspected Fetal Abnormalities
Ansari, N. J. I., Edinburg, M. M., & NIKITHA, N. (2024) · Information systems engineering and management · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-61471-2_30 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Erenbourg, A., Barber, T. J., Cecotti, V., Faiola, S., Fantasia, I., Stampaljia, T., Avnet, H., Radzymińska-Chruściel, B., Meriki, N., & Welsh, A. W. (2025) · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · doi:10.1186/s12884-025-07145-7 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
“Automation of fetal functional cardiac measurements may be an important step towards standardisation and improved repeatability increasing their clinical utility [23–25].”
Optical Flow-Enhanced Mamba U-Net for Cardiac Phase Detection in Ultrasound Videos
Lu, Y., Tan, G., Pu, B., Yeung, P.-H., Wang, H., Li, S., Rajapakse, J. C., & Li, K. (2025) · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · doi:10.1109/tmi.2025.3550731 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Fetal Cardiac Anomaly Detection Models Using Pattern Classification and FetalEcho_V01 Dataset
O, D. M., Vijaya, M. S., & Ranjitha, M. (2025) · Lecture notes in networks and systems · doi:10.1007/978-981-96-3372-2_30 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Enhancing Fetal Cardiac Imaging With Artificial Intelligence
Martins, J. G., Horgan, R., & Sinkovskaya, E. S. (2025) · Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology · doi:10.1097/grf.0000000000000992 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
AI ‐Driven Analysis of the Fetal Left Ventricular Outflow Tract
Turan, Ş., Velly, C., Bisanti, M., Mancini, J., Lafouge, A., Voznyuk, I., & Quarello, E. (2026) · Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine · doi:10.1002/jum.70230 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Phenotyping Preeclampsia Using Unsupervised Machine Learning: A Prospective Cohort Study
Houri, O., Youssef, L., Crovetto, F., Borrell, M., Crimella, M., Ferrante, M. G., Novoa, R. H., Casas, I., Encabo, N., Benítez, L., et al. (2026) · BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · doi:10.1111/1471-0528.70262 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Employing Support Vector Machine Regression to Estimate the Fetal Gestational Age
Wahbah, M., Sakaji, R. A., Funamoto, K., Krishnan, A. N., Kasahara, Y., Kimura, Y., & Khandoker, A. H. (2022) · Computing in cardiology · doi:10.22489/cinc.2022.170 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
“The Machine Learning (ML) framework [8] was employed in [9] to predict fetal GA based on ultrasound brain image appearance.”
MethodGiraldo, S. M., Torres-Valencia, N. A., Torres-Valencia, C. A., & Restrepo, H. F. (2023) · Journal of Clinical Ultrasound · doi:10.1002/jcu.23604 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
“18 In the fetal brain, segmentation techniques have been included in intelligent training algorithms to classify a brain as normal or abnormal in a 2D ultrasound image.”
MethodML-Based Interpretation of Cardiotocography Data: Current State and Future Research
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“By these means, machine learning emphasizes its transformative potential in healthcare by strengthening proactive medical treatments and improving diagnostic precision [4].”
BackgroundNarayana, T. G. R. S., & Nalini, N. (2024) · AIP conference proceedings · doi:10.1063/5.0203728 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Improving New Zealand Health Outcomes with Artificial Intelligence
Sehgal, T., & Cherrington, M. (2021) · Scope Contemporary Research Topics (Health and Wellbeing) · doi:10.34074/scop.3006005 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
- Authors
- Garcia-Canadilla, P., Sanchez-Martinez, S., Crispi, F., & Bijnens, B.
- Affiliations
- Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona (ES)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Venue
- Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 363-372
- ISSN
- 1015-3837 (ISSN-L)
- 1421-9964
- OpenAlex
- W2999570143
- Semantic Scholar
- d64088672203ab58de09bbf1df30a68b3ec1ec92
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 1.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Cerebra
- Fundación Bancaria Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona
- Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (2017SGR)
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (LCF/PR/GN14/10270005, AGAUR 2017, PI17/00675, ERPR04G719/2016)
- European Regional Development Fund (LCF/PR/GN14/10270005, PI17/00675)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Congenital Heart Disease Studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Keywords
- machine learning, fetal cardiology, fetal echocardiography, fetal cardiac function, fetal cardiac anomalies, prenatal diagnosis, image segmentation, tissue Doppler imaging, M-mode imaging
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Echocardiography, Female, Fetal Heart, Heart Defects, Congenital, Humans, Pregnancy, Prenatal Diagnosis, Ultrasonography, Prenatal
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