Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review

Objective: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most prevalent congenital anomaly, imposing a significant burden in morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have introduced numerous new tools to fetal cardiac ultrasound, including automated generat...

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Main Authors: Arianna Riva, Mariachiara Guerra, Stefania Di Gangi, Paola Veronese, Vladimiro L Vida
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Language:English
Published: IMR Press 2024-11-01
Series:Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Online Access:https://www.imrpress.com/journal/CEOG/51/11/10.31083/j.ceog5111244
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author Arianna Riva
Mariachiara Guerra
Stefania Di Gangi
Paola Veronese
Vladimiro L Vida
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description Objective: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most prevalent congenital anomaly, imposing a significant burden in morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have introduced numerous new tools to fetal cardiac ultrasound, including automated generation of fetal cardiac planes and identification of specific CHD diagnostic views. Mechanism: Through a narrative review of literature, we described AI technology on automated CHD detection, lesion identification, and associated challenges, such as training datasets and image segmentation. Findings in Brief: The search provided 28 eligible studies. Conclusions: Artificial intelligence seems to be a promising tool to help clinicians in daily clinical activity: it can automate the detection of standard cardiac planes and assist in identifying abnormalities. The main advantages that emerged from this review are related to the reduction of inter- and intra-operator variability, improvement of overall diagnostic performance and accuracy. However, nowadays, its integration into routine clinical practice gives rise to several issues.
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spelling doaj-art-488d680325f4499bb91b0abd9ab33d802025-08-20T03:36:01ZengIMR PressClinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology0390-66632024-11-01511124410.31083/j.ceog5111244S0390-6663(24)02474-6Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative ReviewArianna Riva0Mariachiara Guerra1Stefania Di Gangi2Paola Veronese3Vladimiro L Vida4Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, University of Padua, 35128 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Women’s and Children’s Health, Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, University of Padua, 35128 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Women’s and Children’s Health, Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, University of Padua, 35128 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Women’s and Children’s Health, Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, University of Padua, 35128 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padua, 35128 Padua, ItalyObjective: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most prevalent congenital anomaly, imposing a significant burden in morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have introduced numerous new tools to fetal cardiac ultrasound, including automated generation of fetal cardiac planes and identification of specific CHD diagnostic views. Mechanism: Through a narrative review of literature, we described AI technology on automated CHD detection, lesion identification, and associated challenges, such as training datasets and image segmentation. Findings in Brief: The search provided 28 eligible studies. Conclusions: Artificial intelligence seems to be a promising tool to help clinicians in daily clinical activity: it can automate the detection of standard cardiac planes and assist in identifying abnormalities. The main advantages that emerged from this review are related to the reduction of inter- and intra-operator variability, improvement of overall diagnostic performance and accuracy. However, nowadays, its integration into routine clinical practice gives rise to several issues.https://www.imrpress.com/journal/CEOG/51/11/10.31083/j.ceog5111244artificial intelligence (ai)congenital heart disease (chd)fetal echocardiographyprenatal ultrasound
spellingShingle Arianna Riva
Mariachiara Guerra
Stefania Di Gangi
Paola Veronese
Vladimiro L Vida
Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review
Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology
artificial intelligence (ai)
congenital heart disease (chd)
fetal echocardiography
prenatal ultrasound
title Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review
title_full Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review
title_fullStr Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review
title_full_unstemmed Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review
title_short Artificial Intelligence for the Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review
title_sort artificial intelligence for the prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of congenital heart disease a narrative review
topic artificial intelligence (ai)
congenital heart disease (chd)
fetal echocardiography
prenatal ultrasound
url https://www.imrpress.com/journal/CEOG/51/11/10.31083/j.ceog5111244
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