Current and Future Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Imaging

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease remains the most common cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and thus an important focus for medical research and medical imaging. Despite continuous advances in cardiac imaging modalities, including echocardiography, cardiovascular magnetic resonance and cardiac computed tomography, the heart remains a challenging organ to image, in particular due to its perpetual motion. Other challenges faced by cardiac imaging include respiratory motion, complex geometry of the ventricles and atria, variability in imaging conditions and protocols, oblique orientation of the heart with respect to the body, and the small size of some of the cardiac structures, including the coronary arteries, trabeculae and papillary muscles.