Harnessing feature extraction capacities from a pre-trained convolutional neural network (VGG-16) for the unsupervised distinction of aortic outflow velocity profiles in patients with severe aortic stenosis.

Transfer learning enables sophisticated pattern recognition even in clinical data sets of limited size. Importantly, it is the left ventricular compensation capacity in the face of increased afterload, and not so much the actual obstruction of the aortic valve, that determines fate after TAVR.