Deep learning for vessel-specific coronary artery calcium scoring: validation on a multi-centre dataset.

David Jean WinkelV Reddappagari SuryanarayanaA Mohamed AliJohannes GörichSebastian Johannes BußAxel MendozaChris SchwemmerPuneet SharmaU Joseph SchoepfSaikiran Rapaka

Published in: European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging (2021)

Our results demonstrate that fully automated total and vessel-specific CAC scoring is feasible using a DL-based algorithm. There was a high agreement with the manually assessed total CAC from a multi-centre dataset and the vessel-specific scoring demonstrated consistent and reproducible results.

Keyphrases

deep learning
coronary artery
machine learning
artificial intelligence
pulmonary artery
convolutional neural network
high throughput
pulmonary hypertension
clinical evaluation