A speckle-tracking strain-based artificial neural network model to differentiate cardiomyopathy type.

Conclusions. Both ANN models were more accurate at predicting cardiomyopathy type than the logistic regression model. The strain-based ANN model should be validated in other cohorts. This model or similar models could be used to aid the diagnosis of underlying heart failure aetiology in the form of the online calculator ( https://cimti.usj.edu.lb/strain/index.html ) or built into echocardiogram software. PMID: 31623474 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal - Category: Cardiology Tags: Scand Cardiovasc J Source Type: research