1. Identification of high-risk imaging features in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using electrocardiography: A deep-learning approach.
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Carrick, Richard T., Ahamed, Hisham, Sung, Eric, Maron, Martin S., Madias, Christopher, Avula, Vennela, Studley, Rachael, Bao, Chen, Bokhari, Nadia, Quintana, Erick, Rajesh-kannan, Ramiah, Maron, Barry J., Wu, Katherine C., and Rowin, Ethan J.
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Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are at risk of sudden death, and individuals with ≥1 major risk markers are considered for primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. Guidelines recommend cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging to identify high-risk imaging features. However, CMR imaging is resource intensive and is not widely accessible worldwide. The purpose of this study was to develop electrocardiogram (ECG) deep-learning (DL) models for the identification of patients with HCM and high-risk imaging features. Patients with HCM evaluated at Tufts Medical Center (N = 1930; Boston, MA) were used to develop ECG-DL models for the prediction of high-risk imaging features: systolic dysfunction, massive hypertrophy (≥30 mm), apical aneurysm, and extensive late gadolinium enhancement. ECG-DL models were externally validated in a cohort of patients with HCM from the Amrita Hospital HCM Center (N = 233; Kochi, India). ECG-DL models reliably identified high-risk features (systolic dysfunction, massive hypertrophy, apical aneurysm, and extensive late gadolinium enhancement) during holdout testing (c-statistic 0.72, 0.83, 0.93, and 0.76) and external validation (c-statistic 0.71, 0.76, 0.91, and 0.68). A hypothetical screening strategy using echocardiography combined with ECG-DL–guided selective CMR use demonstrated a sensitivity of 97% for identifying patients with high-risk features while reducing the number of recommended CMRs by 61%. The negative predictive value with this screening strategy for the absence of high-risk features in patients without ECG-DL recommendation for CMR was 99.5%. In HCM, novel ECG-DL models reliably identified patients with high-risk imaging features while offering the potential to reduce CMR testing requirements in underresourced areas. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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