BACKGROUND: When treating patients with coronary artery disease and concurrent renal concerns, we often encounter a conundrum: how to achieve a clearer view of vascular details while minimizing the contrast and radiation doses during percutaneous cor...
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...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
May 3, 2024
Blood vessel segmentation is a crucial stage in extracting morphological characteristics of vessels for the clinical diagnosis of fundus and coronary artery disease. However, traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are confined to learning l...
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...
Accurate segmentation of coronary artery tree and personalized 3D printing from medical images is essential for CAD diagnosis and treatment. The current literature on 3D printing relies solely on generic models created with different software or 3D c...
Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
Apr 24, 2024
BACKGROUND: Among patients with obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) on coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA), downstream positron emission tomography (PET) perfusion imaging can be performed to assess the presence of myocardial ischemi...
Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
Apr 24, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scans contain useful information beyond the Agatston CAC score that is not currently reported. We recently reported that artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cardiac chambers volumetry in CAC scans (AI-CAC™...
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...
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