Peripheral Artery Disease

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Atherosclerosis Imaging and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Using Machine and Deep Learning-Based Tissue Characterization.

PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune disease which may result in a higher risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and stroke. Tissue characterization and risk stratification of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are a challenging problem. Risk stratification of RA patients using traditional risk factor-based calculators either underestimates or overestimates the CV ...

Association Between Net Vertebral Artery Flow Volume and Non-AF Stroke: A Retrospective 2-Year Analysis.

Association between net vertebral artery flow volume (NVAFV) and stroke types remains unclear. We hypothesize NVAFV is low in patients with posterior circulation infarction (PCI) and an ideal cut-off value for discriminating PCI from anterior circulation infarction (ACI) and controls may be present. As study candidates, we retrospectively enrolled hospitalized patients with first-time non-AF str...

Artificial intelligence to predict needs for urgent revascularization from 12-leads electrocardiography in emergency patients.

BACKGROUND: Patient with acute coronary syndrome benefits from early revascularization. However, methods for the selection of patients who require urg...

Constipation and risk of death and cardiovascular events.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Constipation is one of the most frequent symptoms encountered in daily clinical practice and is implicated in the development of ...

PENYEK: Automated brown planthopper detection from imperfect sticky pad images using deep convolutional neural network.

Rice is a staple food in Asia and it contributes significantly to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Malaysia and other developing countries. Brown P...

Fibroblast growth factor 21 association with subclinical atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness in type 2 diabetes.

AIM: To evaluate the association of serum FGF21 with subclinical atherosclerosis and pulse wave velocity, a marker of arterial stiffness, in type 2 di...

More Than Just a Removal Service: Scavenger Receptors in Leukocyte Trafficking.

Scavenger receptors are a highly diverse superfamily of proteins which are grouped by their inherent ability to bind and internalize a wide array of s...

A Recurrent CNN for Automatic Detection and Classification of Coronary Artery Plaque and Stenosis in Coronary CT Angiography.

Various types of atherosclerotic plaque and varying grades of stenosis could lead to different management of patients with a coronary artery disease. ...

Complex robotic compared to manual coronary interventions: 6- and 12-month outcomes.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the long-term safety and efficacy of robotic percutaneous coronary revascularization for use in complex coronary lesions.

A Randomized Control Trial Of Anti-Inflammatory Regional Hypothermia On Urinary Continence During Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

The present study seeks to present a single-blind, randomized control trial of a hypothermic anti-inflammatory device, the endorectal cooling balloon ...

Generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction approaches to identification of genetic interactions underlying ordinal traits.

The manifestation of complex traits is influenced by gene-gene and gene-environment interactions, and the identification of multifactor interactions i...

Coronary artery centerline extraction in cardiac CT angiography using a CNN-based orientation classifier.

Coronary artery centerline extraction in cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) images is a prerequisite for evaluation of stenoses and atherosclerotic plaque....

Machine-learning integration of CT histogram analysis to evaluate the composition of atherosclerotic plaques: Validation with IB-IVUS.

BACKGROUND: To determine whether machine learning with histogram analysis of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) yields higher diagnostic performance for c...

Commentary: Ascending to the summit of robotic hybrid revascularization.

Do powered over-ground lower limb robotic exoskeletons affect outcomes in the rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury?

To assess the effects of lower limb robotic exoskeletons on outcomes in the rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury. A systematic review ...

Determination of Curdlan Oligosaccharides with High-Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography with Pulsed Amperometric Detection.

The increasing interest of curdlan oligosaccharides (COS) in medicine and plant protection fields implies a necessity to identify and quantify this pr...

Lipid-apolipoprotein interactions in amyloid fibril formation and relevance to atherosclerosis.

The apolipoprotein family is a set of highly conserved proteins characterized by the presence of amphipathic α-helical sequences that mediate lipid bi...

Predictors of atrial fibrillation early recurrence following cryoballoon ablation of pulmonary veins using statistical assessment and machine learning algorithms.

Inflammation, oxidative stress, myocardial injury biomarkers and clinical parameters (longer AF duration, left atrial enlargement, the metabolic syndr...

Calcium detection, its quantification, and grayscale morphology-based risk stratification using machine learning in multimodality big data coronary and carotid scans: A review.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke. Typically, atherosclerotic calcium is found during...

Assessment of Carotid Artery Plaque Components With Machine Learning Classification Using Homodyned-K Parametric Maps and Elastograms.

Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) imaging methods, including elastography, echogenicity analysis, and speckle statistical modeling, are available from a s...