Scientific journal paper Q1
Deep learning for automatic calcium detection in echocardiography
Luís B. Elvas (Elvas, L. B.); Sara Gomes (Gomes, S.); Joao C Ferreira or Joao Ferreira (Ferreira, J. C.); Luís Brás Rosário (Rosário, L. B.); Tomás Brandão (Brandão, T.);
Journal Title
BioData Mining
Year (definitive publication)
2024
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
More Information
Web of Science®

Times Cited: 0

(Last checked: 2025-04-04 13:10)

View record in Web of Science®

Scopus

Times Cited: 0

(Last checked: 2025-03-29 18:06)

View record in Scopus

Google Scholar

Times Cited: 0

(Last checked: 2025-04-03 01:10)

View record in Google Scholar

This publication is not indexed in Overton

Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in the world and cardiovascular imaging techniques are the mainstay of noninvasive diagnosis. Aortic stenosis is a lethal cardiac disease preceded by aortic valve calcification for several years. Data-driven tools developed with Deep Learning (DL) algorithms can process and categorize medical images data, providing fast diagnoses with considered reliability, to improve healthcare effectiveness. A systematic review of DL applications on medical images for pathologic calcium detection concluded that there are established techniques in this field, using primarily CT scans, at the expense of radiation exposure. Echocardiography is an unexplored alternative to detect calcium, but still needs technological developments. In this article, a fully automated method based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) was developed to detect Aortic Calcification in Echocardiography images, consisting of two essential processes: (1) an object detector to locate aortic valve – achieving 95% of precision and 100% of recall; and (2) a classifier to identify calcium structures in the valve – which achieved 92% of precision and 100% of recall. The outcome of this work is the possibility of automation of the detection with Echocardiography of Aortic Valve Calcification, a lethal and prevalent disease.
Acknowledgements
--
Keywords
Cardiovascular diseases,Cardiac diseases,Aortic stenosis,Aortic sclerosis,Aortic calcification,Diagnosis,Echocardiography,Data-driven tool,Deep learning (DL),Convolutional neural networks (CNNs),Object detector,Image classification
  • Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering - Engineering and Technology
  • Medical Engineering - Engineering and Technology
  • Health Sciences - Medical and Health Sciences

With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific publications with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified by the author(s) for this publication. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.