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EchoDino: A pediatric foundation model for transferable echocardiographic analysis across the lifespan
arXiv:2610.05603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Echocardiography is the most widely used cardiac imaging modality, yet interpretation demands integrating visual evidence across global anatomy, localiz
arXiv:2610.05603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Echocardiography is the most widely used cardiac imaging modality, yet interpretation demands integrating visual evidence across global anatomy, localized structures and dynamic cardiac motion. Machine-learning models have automated individual tasks, but they are typically built for a single purpose and depend on expensively labeled datasets - a barrier particularly acute in pediatric care, where data are scarce and anatomy changes with age. Here we present EchoDino, a self-supervised foundation model for echocardiography, created by adapting the DINOv3 framework to 3.7 million frames from 1.7 million unlabeled pediatric echocardiography videos. With its encoder frozen, EchoDino produces representations that capture global context, local anatomy, and dense spatial detail. We introduce Motion-biased Entropy Maximization Sampling (MEMS) to select the most informative frames for video-level analysis. Across nine pediatric and adult datasets, EchoDino outperformed strong baseline models, raising view-classification accuracy from 0.609 to 0.889 and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for structural-heart-disease detection from 0.811 to 0.872, while also cutting age-estimation error from 3.857 to 1.389 years, achieving the best segmentation accuracy and lowering ejection-fraction errors. By generalizing from label-free pediatric data to adult echocardiography, EchoDino offers a versatile foundation for cardiac image analysis across the lifespan.
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-10-06