Peripheral Artery Disease

Effectiveness of ultrasound-guided pelvic floor muscle training in improving prolonged urinary incontinence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Persistence of urinary incontinence (UI) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a both...

Correlation among cystatin C, homocysteine and arteriosclerosis indexes in patients with chronic kidney disease.

OBJECTIVES: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become an important public health problem in the world....

Relationship of age, atherosclerosis and angiographic stenosis using artificial intelligence.

OBJECTIVE: The study evaluates the relationship of coronary stenosis, atherosclerotic plaque charact...

Improved Centerline Extraction in Fully Automated Coronary Ostium Localization and Centerline Extraction Framework using Deep Learning.

Coronary artery extraction in cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) image volume is a necessary step for any...

Stratification of carotid atheromatous plaque using interpretable deep learning methods on B-mode ultrasound images.

Carotid atherosclerosis is the major cause of ischemic stroke resulting in significant rates of mort...

Automatic Deep Learning Segmentation and Quantification of Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Non-Contrast Cardiac CT scans.

An Automatic deep learning semantic segmentation (ADLS) using DeepLab-v3-plus technique is proposed ...

Joint Associations of Multiple Dietary Components With Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Machine-Learning Approach.

The human diet consists of a complex mixture of components. To realistically assess dietary impacts ...

Comparisons between Locomat and Walkbot robotic gait training regarding balance and lower extremity function among non-ambulatory chronic acquired brain injury survivors.

Lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton robots connect with the human body in a wearable way and contr...

Correlation between Immune-Inflammatory Markers and Clinical Features in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke.

OBJECTIVE: Chronic inflammatory processes involving the vascular wall may induce atherosclerosis. Im...

Machine Learning Improves Cardiovascular Risk Definition for Young, Asymptomatic Individuals.

BACKGROUND: Clinical practice guidelines recommend assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis using i...

The role of robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the future of coronary artery revascularization.

Locate the Superficial Femoral Artery with Occlusion by Deep Neural Network Correcting Interpolation.

In clinical practice, doctors usually use computed tomography angiography (CTA) to examine lower ext...

A deep learning oriented method for automated 3D reconstruction of carotid arterial trees from MR imaging.

The scope of this paper is to present a new carotid vessel segmentation algorithm implementing the U...

Prediction of atherosclerotic disease progression combining computational modelling with machine learning.

Non-invasive serial computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) was acquired from 32 patients an...

Automated interpretation of the coronary angioscopy with deep convolutional neural networks.

BACKGROUND: Coronary angioscopy (CAS) is a useful modality to assess atherosclerotic changes, but in...

Performance of a Deep Neural Network Algorithm Based on a Small Medical Image Dataset: Incremental Impact of 3D-to-2D Reformation Combined with Novel Data Augmentation, Photometric Conversion, or Transfer Learning.

Collecting and curating large medical-image datasets for deep neural network (DNN) algorithm develop...

[Innovative activated platelet detection technology by artificial intelligence].

Although antiplatelet drugs are widely used for the prevention and treatment of atherothrombosis, cl...

Association between Serum Vitamin D Concentration Status and Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have become increasingly life-threatening during recent decades. Sever...

Motion-compensated frame rate up-conversion in carotid ultrasound images using optical flow and manifold learning.

OBJECTIVE: Carotid ultrasonography is a reliable and non-invasive method to evaluate atherosclerosis...

Postoperative changes of the free pericardial fat pad for bronchial stump coverage.

BACKGROUND: Bronchopleural fistula (BPF) remains a serious complication after surgery for lung cance...

Potassium selenocyanoacetate reduces the blood triacylglycerol and atherosclerotic plaques in high-fat-dieted mice.

BACKGROUND: Controlling blood lipid levels at the early stage of cardiovascular disease is a major f...