Analysis of Cardiac Ultrasound Images of Critically Ill Patients Using Deep Learning

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease remains a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world and is becoming an increasingly important cause of death in developing countries too. While current cardiovascular treatments can assist to reduce the risk of this disease, a large number of patients still retain a high risk of experiencing a life-threatening cardiovascular event. Thus, the advent of new treatments methods capable of reducing this residual risk remains an important healthcare objective. This paper proposes a deep learning-based method for section recognition of cardiac ultrasound images of critically ill cardiac patients. A convolution neural network (CNN) is used to classify the standard ultrasound video data. The ultrasound video data is parsed into a static image, and InceptionV3 and ResNet50 networks are used to classify eight ultrasound static sections, and the ResNet50 with better classification accuracy is selected as the standard network for classification. The correlation between the ultrasound video data frames is used to construct the ResNet50 + LSTM model. Next, the time-series features of the two-dimensional image sequence are extracted and the classification of the ultrasound section video data is realized. Experimental results show that the proposed cardiac ultrasound image recognition model has good performance and can meet the requirements of clinical section classification accuracy.

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