Xiaowei Xu, Qianjun Jia, Haiyun Yuan, Hailong Qiu, Yuhao Dong, Wen Xie, Zeyang Yao, Jiawei Zhang, Zhiqaing Nie, Xiaomeng Li, Yiyu Shi, James Y Zou, Meiping Huang, Jian Zhuang
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of birth defect. Without timely detection and treatment, approximately one-third of children with CHD would die in the infant period. However, due to the complicated heart structures, early diagnosis of CHD and its types is quite challenging, even for experienced radiologists. Here, we present an artificial intelligence (AI) system that achieves a comparable performance of human experts in the critical task of classifying 17 categories of CHD types. We collected the first-large CT dataset from three different CT machines, including more than 3750 CHD patients over 14 years...
September 6, 2023: Medical Image Analysis