Journal of cardiovascular translational research
Mar 16, 2023
The visual inspection of coronary artery stenosis is known to be significantly affected by variation, due to the presence of other tissues, camera movements, and uneven illumination. More accurate and intelligent coronary angiography diagnostic model...
Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc
Mar 15, 2023
BACKGROUND: Machine learning methods are used in the classification of various cardiovascular diseases through ECG data analysis. The concept of varying subcutaneous implantable cardiac defibrillator (S-ICD) eligibility, owing to the dynamicity of EC...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Mar 12, 2023
Medical soft robotics constitutes a rapidly developing field in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, with a promising future for millions of patients suffering from heart failure worldwide. Herein, the present state and future direction of artif...
Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
Mar 11, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Accurate and consistent delineation of cardiac substructures is challenging. The aim of this work was to validate a novel segmentation tool for automatic delineation of cardiac structures and subsequent dose evaluation, with p...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Mar 4, 2023
Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a frequent disease of the arteries that supply the surface of the heart muscle. Leaving a severe disease untreated can make it permanent. Computer tomography (CT), which is well known for its ability to quantify...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Mar 4, 2023
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models for quantifying myocardial blood flow (MBF) as well as for identifying myocardial perfusion defects in dynamic cardiac computed tomography (...
Registration of dynamic CT image sequences is a crucial preprocessing step for clinical evaluation of multiple physiological determinants in the heart such as global and regional myocardial perfusion. In this work, we present a deformable deep learni...
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Mar 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion images (MPI) can be displayed both in traditional short-axis (SA) cardiac planes and polar maps for interpretation and quantification. It is essential to reorient the...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Feb 27, 2023
PURPOSE: Computed tomography coronary angiography (CCTA) images provide optimal visualization of coronary arteries to aid in diagnosing coronary heart disease (CHD). With the deep convolutional neural network, this work aims to develop an intelligent...