Preservation of Autologous Brachiocephalic Vessels with Assistance of Three-Dimensional Printing Based on Convolutional Neural Networks.

Journal: Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Preservation of autologous brachiocephalic vessels in Stanford type A aortic dissection has good short-time outcomes. However, getting access to the details is not easy by conventional examination methods. This study is aimed at reconstructing the aortic arch model by three-dimensional (3D) printing based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) to understand the details for performing surgery.

Authors

  • Yu Yan
    School of Preclinical Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, No. 22, Shuangyong Road, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China.
  • Yan-Yan Su
    Department of Anatomy, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
  • Zhong-Ya Yan
    Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.