Novel Post-Processing Imaging in Cardiology: Current Status and Future Directions
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiovascular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 741
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2. Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel
Interests: implantable devices; arrhythmia pathogenesis and ablations; cardiac electrophysiology
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Interests: computed tomography; myocardial infarction; cardiac CT; cardiac imaging; cardiac MRI; cardiovascular imaging
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Dear Colleagues,
Several imaging post-processing techniques are increasingly being integrated into daily clinical practice in cardiology. These include trans-thoracic echocardiography global longitudinal strain (GLS) analyses, computerized tomography (CT) radiomic analyses, and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging scar tissue analyses using dedicated software such as ADAS (Barcelona, Spain). Strain analysis is based on echocardiographic speckle tracking, enabling the direct evaluation of myocardial contractility. GLS has been proven to be a more accurate and sensitive measure of left-ventricular (LV) systolic function and less prone to afterload conditions compared with LV ejection fraction (EF) assessment. GLS has also seen increasing use in various areas of cardiology, including 1) the diagnosis of LV hypertrophy etiologies; 2) the assessment of ischemia; 3) the evaluation of asymptomatic valvular disease, predicting future symptoms and mortality; 4) cardio-oncology and the early detection of chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity; and 5) predicting responses to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Radiomics is a precise method of extracting numerous (thousands of) quantitative parameters and features from diagnostic digital images, such as CT or CMR, including complex patterns and subtle variations that cannot be identified by the human eye. Although it has been widely investigated in oncology, radiomics has only recently been recognized as an invaluable diagnostic tool in cardiology. Using radiomic feature analysis in the left-atrial adipose tissue, we could predict AF recurrence post-ablation and possibly also detect occult AF. We aim to investigate the use of these techniques to diagnose and predict outcomes in various other fields in cardiology.
Dr. Moshe Rav-Acha
Dr. Arik Wolak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiac imaging
- cardiac magnetic resonance
- echocardiography
- computed tomography
- trans-thoracic echocardiography global longitudinal strain (GLS) analyses
- radiomics
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