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Early detection of cardiac dysfunction through routine screening is vital for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. An important metric of cardiac function is the left ventricular ejection fraction (EF), where lower EF is associated with…
T1 mapping is a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) technique that has emerged as a valuable tool in the diagnosis of diffuse myocardial diseases. However, prevailing approaches have relied heavily on breath-hold sequences to…
Myocardial motion tracking stands as an essential clinical tool in the prevention and detection of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the foremost cause of death globally. However, current techniques suffer from incomplete and inaccurate…
Accurate prediction of cardiovascular diseases remains imperative for early diagnosis and intervention, necessitating robust and precise predictive models. Recently, there has been a growing interest in multi-modal learning for uncovering…
In silico tissue models enable evaluating quantitative models of magnetic resonance imaging. This includes validating and sensitivity analysis of imaging biomarkers and tissue microstructure parameters. We propose a novel method to generate…
The Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) approach aims to estimate multiple MR or physiological parameters simultaneously with a single fast acquisition sequence. Most of the MRF studies proposed so far have used simple MR sequence types…
Purpose: Advancements in MRI Tissue Phase Velocity Mapping (TPM) allow for the acquisition of higher quality velocity cardiac images providing better assessment of regional myocardial deformation for accurate disease diagnosis,…
Purpose: To develop a new sequence, MIMOSA, for highly-efficient T1, T2, T2*, proton density (PD), and source separation quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). Methods: MIMOSA was developed based on 3D-quantification using an…
Myocardial point tracking (MPT) has recently emerged as a promising direction for motion estimation in echocardiography, driven by advances in general-purpose point tracking methods. However, myocardial motion fundamentally differs from…
Cardiac amyloidosis, a rare and highly morbid condition, presents significant challenges for detection through echocardiography. Recently, there has been a surge in proposing machine-learning algorithms to identify cardiac amyloidosis, with…
Objective: We aim to provide an algorithm for the detection of myocardial infarction that operates directly on ECG data without any preprocessing and to investigate its decision criteria. Approach: We train an ensemble of fully…
Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an authoritative source to diagnose and counter critical cardiovascular syndromes such as arrhythmia and myocardial infarction (MI). Current machine learning techniques either depend on manually extracted features…
Elucidating the biomechanical behavior of the myocardium is crucial for understanding cardiac physiology, but cannot be directly inferred from clinical imaging and typically requires finite element (FE) simulations. However, conventional FE…
Myocardial motion tracking is important for assessing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, for which cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has been established as the gold standard imaging modality. Many existing methods…
Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography (MCE) with micro-bubble contrast agent enables myocardial perfusion quantification which is invaluable for the early detection of coronary artery diseases. In this paper, we proposed a new segmentation…
Advancing human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocyte (hiPSC-CM) technology will lead to significant progress ranging from disease modeling, to drug discovery, to regenerative tissue engineering. Yet, alongside these potential…
PURPOSE To develop free-running multi-echo GRE for cardiac- and respiratory-motion-resolved whole-heart fat fraction quantification. METHODS Multi-echo readouts optimized for water-fat separation and quantification were integrated within a…
Recovering the 3D motion of the heart from cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging enables the assessment of regional myocardial function and is important for understanding and analyzing cardiovascular disease. However, 3D cardiac…
We developed a new magnetic resonance imaging method called multinuclear fingerprinting (MNF) which leverages simultaneously-acquired proton (1H) and sodium (23Na) data to generate seven quantitative maps of the whole brain: proton density…
Cardiac T1 mapping provides critical quantitative insights into myocardial tissue composition, enabling the assessment of pathologies such as fibrosis, inflammation, and edema. However, the inherently dynamic nature of the heart imposes…