Diagnostic or prognostic study

Artificial Intelligence Automation of Echocardiographic Measurements

J Am Coll CardiolPublished

  • Diagnostic accuracy study
  • development and external validation
  • temporal split

Authors' conclusion

EchoNet-Measurements achieves high accuracy in automated echocardiographic quantification and potential for assisting the clinicians in the echocardiography workflow.

Study context

Population
Echocardiography studies from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2011–2023), with external validation at Stanford Healthcarestudies
Participants
155,215 studies
Comparison
Deep learning automated measurement vs sonographer measurement

Performance

As reported in the abstract

Accuracy vs sonographer measurements, all 9 B-mode and 9 Doppler measurements

Mean coverage probability, held-out Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) test set

0.796

Mean coverage probability, external Stanford Healthcare (SHC) data set

0.839

Mean relative difference, held-out CSMC test set

0.120

Mean relative difference, external SHC data set

0.096

Further findings

OutcomeEchoNet-MeasurementsSonographer
End-to-end evaluation on 2,103 temporally distinct CSMC studies
Mean coverage probability0.803Not reported in the abstract
Mean relative difference0.108Not reported in the abstract

Performance by age, sex, AF, obesity status and machine vendor

Performance consistent across patient characteristics and machine vendors

Original publication

Artificial Intelligence Automation of Echocardiographic Measurements. J Am Coll Cardiol. Published 7 September 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2025.07.053

Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it