European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Mar 21, 2022
PURPOSE: Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is widely used for coronary artery disease (CAD) evaluation. Although attenuation correction is recommended to diminish image artifacts and improve d...
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Mar 17, 2022
BACKGROUND: To assess the accuracy of fully automated deep learning (DL) based coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS) from non-contrast computed tomography (CT) as acquired for attenuation correction (AC) of cardiac single-photon-emission computed to...
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Mar 10, 2022
BACKGROUND: Advanced cardiac imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful tool for the evaluation of known or suspected cardiovascular disease. Deep learning (DL) offers the possibility to abstract highly complex patterns to optimize...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Feb 23, 2022
PURPOSE: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a deep learning (DL) algorithm predicting hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease (CAD) by using a rest dataset of myocardial computed tomography perfusion (CTP) as compared to invasive eval...
The objective of the current study was to develop and evaluate a DEep learning-based rapid Spiral Image REconstruction (DESIRE) technique for high-resolution spiral first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging with whole-heart coverage, to provide fast an...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Nov 27, 2021
Traditional approach for predicting coronary artery disease (CAD) is based on demographic data, symptoms such as chest pain and dyspnea, and comorbidity related to cardiovascular diseases. Usually, these variables are analyzed by logistic regression ...
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Oct 20, 2021
BACKGROUND: Attenuation correction can improve the quantitative accuracy of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images. Existing SPECT-only systems normally can only provide non-attenuation corrected (NC) images which are susceptible t...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Oct 16, 2021
We compared the prognostic value of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by conventional- (C-) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and cadmium-zinc-telluride- (CZT-) SPECT in a cohort of patients with suspected or known coronary artery d...
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Jul 19, 2021
BACKGROUND: We previously developed a deep-learning (DL) network for image denoising in SPECT-myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Here we investigate whether this DL network can be utilized for improving detection of perfusion defects in standard-dos...
As machine learning research in the field of cardiovascular imaging continues to grow, obtaining reliable model performance estimates is critical to develop reliable baselines and compare different algorithms. While the machine learning community has...
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