Artificial intelligence (AI) has been developed for echocardiography, although it has not yet been tested with blinding and randomization. Here we designed a blinded, randomized non-inferiority clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT05140642; no o...
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
Mar 22, 2023
BACKGROUND: Aortic stenosis (AS) is a common form of valvular heart disease, present in over 12% of the population age 75 years and above. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is the first line of imaging in the adjudication of AS severity but is tim...
BACKGROUND: The adoption of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has greatly improved the ability to rapidly evaluate unstable emergency department (ED) patients at the bedside. One major use of POCUS is to obtain echocardiograms to assess cardiac functi...
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
Mar 16, 2023
AIMS: Assessment of left ventricular (LV) function by echocardiography is hampered by modest test-retest reproducibility. A novel artificial intelligence (AI) method based on deep learning provides fully automated measurements of LV global longitudin...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 7, 2023
PURPOSE: Conventional robotic ultrasound systems were utilized with patients in supine positions. Meanwhile, the limitation of the systems is that it is difficult to evacuate the patients in case of emergency (e.g., patient discomfort and system fail...
Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is essential for evaluating left ventricular systolic function. However, its clinical calculation requires the physician to interactively segment the left ventricle and obtain the mitral annulus and apical la...
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
Feb 7, 2023
BACKGROUND: Significant interobserver and interstudy variability occurs for left ventricular (LV) functional indices despite standardization of measurement techniques. Artificial intelligence models trained on adult echocardiograms are not likely to ...
The segmentation of the left ventricle endocardium (LV) and the left ventricle epicardium (LV) in echocardiography plays an important role in clinical diagnosis. Recently, deep neural networks have been the most commonly used approach for echocardiog...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Jan 24, 2023
Congenital heart defect (CHD) refers to the overall structural abnormality of the heart or large blood vessels in the chest cavity. It is the most common type of fetal congenital defects. Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease can improve the...