Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Image Extraction in Neonatal Echocardiography for Congenital Heart Disease Diagnosis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Protocol for Model Development

Aminkeng Zawuo Leke   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Lionel Landry Sop Deffo   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Yunkavi Sabastian Wirsiy   ^{1 *} , MTech ;   Thomas Aldersley   ^{2 *} , MBBCh, MPH ;   Thomas Day   ^{3 *} , MBChB, PhD ;   Andrew P King   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Patrick McAllister   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Michel N Maboh   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   John Lawrenson   ^{2 *} , MBBCh ;   Cabral Tantchou   ^{5 *} , MD, PhD ;   Bernhard Kainz   ^{6 *} , PhD ;   Frank Casey   ^{7 *} , MD ;   Raymond Bond   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Dewar Finlay   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Ngoe Kelson Tchinda   ^{1 *} , MEng ;   Armstrong Obale   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Frunwi Ndeh Mugri   ^{1 *} , BEng ;   Liesl Zühlke   ^{2, 8 *} , MD, MPH, PhD ;   Helen Dolk   ^{7 *} , DrPH

¹ Digital Technology and Innovation Hub, Health Research Foundation Buea, Buea, Cameroon

² Division of Paediatric Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

³ School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ School of Computing, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

⁵ St. Elizabeth Catholic general hospital Shisong Cardiac centre, Kumbo, Cameroon

⁶ Department of Computing, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁷ School of Medicine, Ulster University, Londonderry, United Kingdom

⁸ South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

*all authors contributed equally