Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Nov 2, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Coronary artery disease, which is mostly caused by atherosclerotic narrowing of the coronary artery lumen, is a leading cause of death. Coronary angiography is the standard method to estimate the severity of coronary artery ...
Despite the evidence of improved patients' outcome, fractional flow reserve (FFR) is underused in current everyday practice. We aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a novel automated artificial intelligence angiography-based FFR software (AutocathFFR...
Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
Aug 10, 2020
BACKGROUND: Quantitative coronary plaque parameters are increasingly being utilized as surrogate endpoints of pharmaceutical trials. However, little is known whether differences in segmentation significantly alter parameter values.
BACKGROUND: The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) demonstrated that annual screening with low dose CT in high-risk population was associated with reduction in lung cancer mortality. Nonetheless, the leading cause of mortality in the study was from...
Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Jul 22, 2020
Plaque vulnerability prediction is of great importance in cardiovascular research. In vivo follow-up intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) coronary plaque data were acquired from nine patients to construct fluid-structure interaction models to obtain plaqu...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jul 9, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Recently, deep convolutional neural network has significantly improved image classification and image segmentation. If coronary artery disease (CAD) can be diagnosed through machine learning and deep learning, it will signif...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Jul 4, 2020
Cardiac CT using non-enhanced coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS) and coronary CT angiography (cCTA) has been proven to provide excellent evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD) combining anatomical and morphological assessment of CAD for card...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Jul 2, 2020
The recent technological developments in the field of cardiac imaging have established coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) as a first-line diagnostic tool in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). CCTA offers robust inform...
PURPOSE: Coronary artery calcium (CAC) score has shown to be an accurate predictor of future cardiovascular events. Early detection by CAC scoring might reduce the number of deaths by cardiovascular disease (CVD). Automatically excluding scans which ...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This paper investigates present uses and future potential of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to intracoronary imaging technologies.