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AI models for heart health are spatially accurate but temporally blind

A new research paper published on arXiv investigates the attribution methods used to explain the decisions of deep learning models in echocardiography. The study found that while these models can accurately estimate left-ventricular ejection fraction (EF) and their explanations are spatially faithful, they are temporally blind. This means the models do not reliably focus on the critical end-systolic and end-diastolic frames that define EF, despite appearing to focus on the correct anatomical regions. The findings caution against relying solely on spatial attribution for validating video diagnostic models and highlight the need for temporally-aware training and evaluation. AI

IMPACT Highlights the need for more robust evaluation of AI in medical diagnostics, particularly concerning temporal aspects of video analysis.

RANK_REASON Research paper published on arXiv detailing findings about AI model attribution.

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AI models for heart health are spatially accurate but temporally blind

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hyunkyung Han, Min Jung Kim ·

    Anatomically Faithful but Temporally Blind: Auditing Attribution for Left-Ventricular Ejection-Fraction Estimation from Echocardiography

    arXiv:2607.13738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background and Objective: Deep video models estimate left-ventricular ejection fraction (EF) from echocardiography with near-expert accuracy, and post-hoc attribution (Chefer relevance for transformers, Grad-CAM for CNNs) is incre…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Min Jung Kim ·

    Anatomically Faithful but Temporally Blind: Auditing Attribution for Left-Ventricular Ejection-Fraction Estimation from Echocardiography

    Background and Objective: Deep video models estimate left-ventricular ejection fraction (EF) from echocardiography with near-expert accuracy, and post-hoc attribution (Chefer relevance for transformers, Grad-CAM for CNNs) is increasingly used to certify that models "look at the r…