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    • Cardiology
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Medical Imaging

    Background:

    • Echocardiography is a primary noninvasive cardiac imaging tool.
    • Foundation models show promise but face challenges in medical imaging due to data and domain differences.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce EchoFM, a versatile foundation model for echocardiography.
    • To develop a self-supervised learning framework for spatio-temporal cardiac data.
    • To create a flexible backbone for diverse downstream clinical tasks.

    Main Methods:

    • Trained EchoFM on over 20 million echocardiographic images from 6,500 patients.
    • Implemented a self-supervised learning framework with spatio-temporal masking and contrastive learning.
    • Validated the model on public and multi-center internal datasets for key echocardiography tasks.

    Main Results:

    • EchoFM demonstrated superior performance and generalization capabilities across various downstream tasks.
    • The model consistently outperformed state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.
    • The learned cardiac representations are adaptable for fine-tuning.

    Conclusions:

    • EchoFM offers a powerful and flexible foundation model for echocardiography.
    • The proposed self-supervised learning approach effectively captures spatio-temporal cardiac dynamics.
    • EchoFM has the potential to advance cardiac imaging analysis in clinical workflows.