The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
May 9, 2024
To assess the impact of low-dose contrast media (CM) injection protocol with deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) algorithm on image quality in coronary CT angiography (CCTA). In this prospective study, patients underwent CCTA were prospectively...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
May 3, 2024
Almost 35 years after its introduction, coronary artery calcium score (CACS) not only survived technological advances but became one of the cornerstones of contemporary cardiovascular imaging. Its simplicity and quantitative nature established it as ...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Apr 28, 2024
The quantification of carotid plaque has been routinely used to predict cardiovascular risk in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary artery disease (CAD). To determine how well carotid plaque features predict the likelihood of CAD and cardiovascu...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Apr 18, 2024
Automatic segmentation of the coronary artery using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images can facilitate several analyses related to coronary artery disease (CAD). Accurate segmentation of the lumen or plaque region is one of the mos...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Apr 17, 2024
This study assesses the agreement of Artificial Intelligence-Quantitative Computed Tomography (AI-QCT) with qualitative approaches to atherosclerotic disease burden codified in the multisociety 2022 CAD-RADS 2.0 Expert Consensus. 105 patients who und...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Apr 17, 2024
Cardiac magnetic resonance cine images are primarily used to evaluate functional consequences, whereas limited information is extracted from the noncontrast pixel-wise myocardial signal intensity pattern. In this study we want to assess whether chara...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Mar 10, 2024
We evaluated the diagnostic performance of a deep-learning model (DLM) (CorEx®, Spimed-AI, Paris, France) designed to automatically detect > 50% coronary stenosis on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images. We studied inter-observer va...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Dec 27, 2023
The existing multilabel X-Ray image learning tasks generally contain much information on pathology co-occurrence and interdependency, which is very important for clinical diagnosis. However, the challenging part of this subject is to accurately diagn...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Nov 8, 2023
The diagnostic accuracy of exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) for myocardial ischemia requires improvement, given that it currently depends on the physicians' experience and image quality. To address this issue, we aimed to develop artificial int...