AIM: The urgency of the study is determined by the lack of data necessary in order to assess the safety of prolonged use of proton pump inhibitors (PPI) in patients with IHD combined with anti-aggregant therapy. The aim of the study was to study the ...
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
29696484
BACKGROUND: Reporting standards promote clarity and consistency of stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) reports, but do not require an assessment of post-test risk. Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools could potentially help estimate this ris...
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
29790017
BACKGROUND: A significant number of variables are obtained when characterizing patients suspected with myocardial ischemia or at risk of MACE. Guidelines typically use a handful of them to support further workup or therapeutic decisions. However, it ...
BACKGROUND: Myocardial ischemia has a complex and time-varying electrocardiographic signature that is used to diagnose and stratify severity. Despite the ubiquitous clinical use of the ECG to detect ischemia, the sensitivity and specificity of ECG ba...
The detection of Adverse Medical Events (AMEs) plays an important role in disease management in ensuring efficient treatment delivery and quality improvement of health services. Recently, with the rapid development of hospital information systems, a ...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) to segment scar tissue in the left ventricle from cardiac magnetic resonance with late gadolinium enhancement (CMR-LGE) images.
BACKGROUND: Invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a standard tool for identifying ischemia-producing coronary stenosis. However, in clinical practice, over 70% of treatment decisions still rely on visual estimation of angiographic stenosis, which...
OBJECTIVES: The present study aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of a machine learning (ML)-based FFR algorithm, quantified subtended myocardial volume, and high-risk plaque features for predicting if a coronary stenosis is hemodynamically s...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
31935666
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can assist in both functional and structural analysis of the heart, but due to hardware and physical limitations, high-resolution MRI scans is time consuming and peak signal-to-noise ...