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An echocardiogram is a sophisticated ultrasound imaging technique employed to diagnose heart conditions. The transthoracic echocardiogram, one of the most prevalent types, is instrumental in evaluating significant cardiac diseases. However, interpreting its results heavily relies on the clinician's expertise. In this context, artificial intelligence has emerged as a vital tool for helping clinicians. This study critically analyzes key state-of-the-art research that uses deep learning techniques to automate transthoracic echocardiogram analysis and support clinical judgments. We have systematically organized and categorized articles that proffer solutions for view classification, enhancement of image quality and dataset, segmentation and identification of cardiac structures, detection of cardiac function abnormalities, and quantification of cardiac functions. We compared the performance of various deep learning approaches within each category, identifying the most promising methods. Additionally, we highlight limitations in current research and explore promising avenues for future exploration. These include addressing generalizability issues, incorporating novel AI approaches, and tackling the analysis of rare cardiac diseases., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

Currently, deployment of UAV has transformed from crucial to day-to-day scenarios for various purposes such as wastage collection, live entertainment, product delivery, town mapping, etc. Object tracking based UAV applications such as traffic monitoring, wildlife monitoring and surveillance have undergone phenomenal changeover due to deep learning based methodologies. With such transformation, there is also lack of resources to practically explore the UAV images and videos with deep learning methodologies. Hence, a deep learning-based object detection and tracking tool with UAV data (DL-ODT-UAV) is proposed to fill the learning gap, especially among students. DL-ODT-UAV is a resource to acquire basic knowledge about UAV and deep learning based object detection and tracking. It integrates various object annotators, object detectors and object tracker. Single object detection and tracking is performed with YOLO as object detector and LSTM as object tracker. Faster R-CNN is adopted in multiple object detection. With exploring the tool, the ability of students to approach problems related to deep learning methodologies will improve to a greater level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]