Intravascular ultrasound-based machine learning for predicting fractional flow reserve in intermediate coronary artery lesions.
Journal:
Atherosclerosis
Published Date:
Nov 2, 2019
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-derived morphological criteria are poor predictors of the functional significance of intermediate coronary stenosis. IVUS-based supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms were developed to identify lesions with a fractional flow reserve (FFR) ≤0.80 (vs. >0.80).