Ammar Hoori

Oct 26, 2023 | octnews.org | Ammar Hoori |David Wilson |Hiram G. Bezerra |Juhwan Lee

October 26, 2023 | Cardiology | Case Western Reserve University, The Hashemite University, University of South Florida It can be difficult/impossible to fully expand a coronary artery stent in a heavily calcified coronary artery lesion. Under-expanded stents are linked to later complications. Here we used machine/deep learning to analyze calcifications in pre-stent intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images and predicted the success of vessel expansion.