Echocardiography View Classification as an Important Step to Heart Failure Diagnosis: A Case Study of the EchoJEPA Foundation Model
Ognjen Pavić, Lazar Dašić, Tijana Geroski, Anđela Blagojević, Andrej Preveden, Aleksandra Milovančev, Lazar Velicki, Nduka Okwose, Anne Nelissen, Đorđe Jakovljević, Nenad Filipović
Accurate classification of echocardiographic views (e.g. apical 2- and 4-chamber, parasternal long-axis) is an important prerequisite for reliable ejection-fraction assessment and heart failure diagnosis, but manual classification is time-consuming. This study evaluates the EchoJEPA foundation model, pretrained on more than 18 million ultrasound recordings, with modified output layers for automatic echocardiographic view classification, providing a baseline component for a larger automated pipeline for HF diagnosis from echocardiography video/image data. This work was presented at the 5th Serbian International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (SICAAI 2026), Kragujevac, Serbia, and was carried out within the STRATIFYHF project.