OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the value of employing artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) and chronic thromboembolic disease (CTED).
BACKGROUND: Pulmonary hypertension (pH) is a malignant pulmonary circulation disease. Right heart catheterization (RHC) is the gold standard procedure for quantitative evaluation of pulmonary hemodynamics. Accurate and noninvasive quantitative evalua...
Unplanned admissions for worsening heart failure (WHF) are the largest resource cost in heart failure (HF) management. Despite advances in pharmacological agents and interventional therapy, HF remains a global epidemic. One crucial-and costly-gap in ...
Zhonghua jie he he hu xi za zhi = Zhonghua jiehe he huxi zazhi = Chinese journal of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases
May 12, 2025
Pulmonary vascular intervention technology, with its minimally invasive and precise advantages, has been a groundbreaking advancement in the treatment of pulmonary vascular diseases. Techniques such as balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA), pulmonary a...
Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
May 6, 2025
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to develop an automated method for pulmonary artery and vein segmentation in both left and right lungs from computed tomography (CT) images using artificial intelligence (AI). The segmentations were evaluated using PulmoS...
European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Mar 4, 2025
OBJECTIVES: The advantages of preoperative three-dimensional (3D) image simulations, which require enhanced computed tomography (ECT), for anatomical lung resection are well documented. However, the necessity for contrast agent presents a significant...
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