Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Mar 17, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Sleep apnea is the most common sleep disorder that leads to serious health complications if not treated early. Forecasting apnea occurrence ahead in time provides the opportunity to take appropriate actions to control and manage it.
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Jan 8, 2022
PURPOSE: Although segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) thrombus is a crucial step for both the planning of endovascular treatment and the monitoring of the intervention's outcome, it is still performed manually implying time consuming ope...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Jan 3, 2022
PURPOSE: Wearable devices in the scenario of connected home healthcare integrated with artificial intelligence have been an effective alternative to the conventional medical devices. Despite various benefits of wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) device...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Aug 18, 2021
PURPOSE: The pre-clinical testing of cardiovascular implants gains increasing attention due to the complexity of novel implants and new medical device regulations. It often relies on large animal experiments that are afflicted with ethical and method...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Aug 16, 2021
PURPOSE: Drug induced cardiac toxicity is a disruption of the functionality of cardiomyocytes which is highly correlated to the organization of the subcellular structures. We can analyze cellular structures by utilizing microscopy imaging data. Howev...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Jul 14, 2021
PURPOSE: In clinical practice, many patients with right heart failure (RHF) have elevated pulmonary artery pressures and increased afterload on the right ventricle (RV). In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of RV augmentation using a soft robo...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Nov 11, 2020
PURPOSE: We accelerate a pathline-based cardiovascular model building method by training machine learning models to directly predict vessel lumen surface points from computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) medical image data.
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Aug 11, 2020
PURPOSE: The quantitative analysis of contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is essential to assess aortic anatomy, identify pathologies, and perform preoperative planning in vascular surgery. To overcome the limitations given by man...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Sep 18, 2019
PURPOSE: Vulnerable plaque detection is important to acute coronary syndrome (ACS) diagnosis. In recent years, intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) imaging has been used for vulnerable plaque detection. Current automated detection metho...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Jun 19, 2019
PURPOSE: An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is known as a cardiovascular disease involving localized deformation (swelling or enlargement) of aorta occurring between the renal and iliac arteries. AAA would jeopardize patients' lives due to its ruptur...