Jean-Claude Tardif

Aug 10, 2024 | nature.com | Janusz Rak |Jean-Claude Tardif |Matthieu Ruiz |Eric Boilard

AbstractLymphatic vessels are essential for preventing the accumulation of harmful components within peripheral tissues, including the artery wall. Various endogenous mechanisms maintain adequate lymphatic function throughout life, with platelets being essential for preserving lymphatic vessel integrity. However, since lymph lacks platelets, their impact on the lymphatic system has long been viewed as restricted to areas where lymphatics intersect with blood vessels.

May 22, 2024 | nature.com | Élodie Labrecque Langlais |Gemina Doolub |Sebastián Mrad |Jean-Claude Tardif |Guillaume Marquis-Gravel |Geoffrey H. Tison | +1 more

AbstractThe coronary angiogram is the gold standard for evaluating the severity of coronary artery disease stenoses. Presently, the assessment is conducted visually by cardiologists, a method that lacks standardization. This study introduces DeepCoro, a ground-breaking AI-driven pipeline that integrates advanced vessel tracking and a video-based Swin3D model that was trained and validated on a dataset comprised of 182,418 coronary angiography videos spanning 5 years.

Aug 11, 2023 | nature.com | Joshua P. Barrios |Sean Abreau |Jean-Claude Tardif

AbstractCoronary angiography is the primary procedure for diagnosis and management decisions in coronary artery disease (CAD), but ad-hoc visual assessment of angiograms has high variability. Here we report a fully automated approach to interpret angiographic coronary artery stenosis from standard coronary angiograms.