From Early Morphometrics to Machine Learning-What Future for Cardiovascular Imaging of the Pulmonary Circulation?

ABSTRACT: Imaging plays a cardinal role in the diagnosis and management of diseases of the pulmonary circulation. Behind the picture itself, every digital image contains a wealth of quantitative data, which are hardly analysed in current routine clinical practice and this is now being transformed by radiomics. Mathematical analyses of these data using novel techniques, such as vascular morphometry (including vascular tortuosity and vascular volumes), blood flow imaging (including quantitative lung perfusion and computational flow dynamics), and artificial intelligence, are opening a window on the complex pathophysiology and structure-function relationships of pulmonary vascular diseases. They have the potential to make dramatic alterations to how clinicians investigate the pulmonary circulation, wit

SUBMITTER: Gopalan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7760106 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature