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Currently, most measurement techniques rely on two\u2010dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), where an end\u2010diastolic (ED) frame from the parasternal long\u2010axis (PLAX) view is selected, and key points on the interventricular septum (IVS), left ventricular internal dimension (LVID), and left ventricular posterior wall (LVPW) are identified. However, using a single frame often fails to capture the entire structure of the IVS and LVPW, especially when complex anatomical details or blurred edges are present, leading to positional shifts or loss of key points and, hence, considerable measurement\u00a0errors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Purpose<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study, we propose an automatic method for measuring left ventricular structural parameters based on echocardiographic PLAX\u2010view videos. 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The proposed model was compared with U\u2010Net, U\u2010Net++, DeepLabV3, SegFormer, and TransUNet for segmentation, and HRNet and ViTPose for keypoint detection. Evaluation metrics included mIoU, Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), Hausdorff distance (HD), and average precision (, , mAP). Statistical significance was assessed using paired\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2010tests with a significance threshold of , and multiple comparisons were corrected using the Benjamini\u2013Hochberg (BH)\u00a0procedure.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our results demonstrate robust performance improvements over existing benchmarks. In the segmentation task, our method achieved a mean intersection over union (mIoU) of 83.22% (DSC 0.856, HD 10.174). Statistical analysis demonstrated that this performance is significantly superior to classic models like U\u2010Net (), showing a positive small\u2010to\u2010medium effect size (). In the keypoint detection task, our approach achieved an mAP of 0.698 ( = 0.965), significantly outperforming the DeepLabV3 baseline () with a positive medium\u2010to\u2010large effect size (). 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