Special Issues

Artificial Intelligence in Congenital Heart Disease

Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025 (closed) View: 315

Guest Editors

Dr. Hazhee Rasoul

Email: hazhee.rasoul@nhs.net

Affiliation: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, UK

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Research Interests: Cardiac imaging, digital health


Dr. Elettra Pomiato

Email: elettra.pomiato@gstt.nhs.uk

Affiliation: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, UK

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Research Interests: Adult Congenital Heart Disease


Summary

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being considered the next big technological wave with the potential to have a significant impact across a wide range of different fields, with congenital heart disease being no exception.


In this special issue, we will focus on how AI can be used to diagnose and manage patients with congenital heart disease. With emerging technology, there is an exciting opportunity to explore its different applications, from cardiac imaging and ECG interpretation to the risk stratification of patients with a confirmed diagnosis. However, the breadth of congenital heart disease presents a particular challenge when it comes to having an adequate dataset to train these AI models.


Submissions to this Special Issue should involve the application of AI in a cohort of patients with congenital heart disease, with a particular focus on how this can have real-world clinical utility to improve care to these patients. 


Keywords

Artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, convolutional neural network, congenital heart disease

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Generating Synthetic Data for Machine Learning Models from the Pediatric Heart Network Fontan I Dataset

    Vatche Bahudian, John Valdovinos
    Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.20, No.1, pp. 115-127, 2025, DOI:10.32604/chd.2025.063991
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence in Congenital Heart Disease)
    Abstract Background: The population of Fontan patients, patients born with a single functioning ventricle, is growing. There is a growing need to develop algorithms for this population that can predict health outcomes. Artificial intelligence models predicting short-term and long-term health outcomes for patients with the Fontan circulation are needed. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a solution for generating realistic and useful synthetic data that can be used to train such models. Methods: Despite their promise, GANs have not been widely adopted in the congenital heart disease research community due, in some part, to a lack of knowledge… More >

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