Abstract
Currently,clinically available coronary CT angiography(CCTA)derived fractional flow reserve(CT-FFR)is time-consuming and complex.We propose a novel artificial intelligence-based fully-automated,on-site CT-FFR technology,which combines the automated coronary plaque segmentation and luminal extrac-tion model with reduced order 3 dimentional(3D)computational fluid dynamics.A total of 463 consec-utive patients with 600 vessels from the updated China CT-FFR study in Cohort 1 undergoing both CCTA and invasive fractional flow reserve(FFR)within 90 d were collected for diagnostic performance evalu-ation.For Cohort 2,a total of 901 chronic coronary syndromes patients with index CT-FFR and clinical outcomes at 3-year follow-up were retrospectively analyzed.In Cohort 3,the association between index CT-FFR from triple-rule-out CTA and major adverse cardiac events in patients with acute chest pain from the emergency department was further evaluated.The diagnostic accuracy of this CT-FFR in Cohort 1 was 0.82 with an area under the curve of 0.82 on a per-patient level.Compared with the manually dependent CT-FFR techniques,the operation time of this technique was substantially shortened by 3 times and the number of clicks from about 60 to 1.This CT-FFR technique has a highly successful(>99%)calculation rate and also provides superior prediction value for major adverse cardiac events than CCTA alone both in patients with chronic coronary syndromes and acute chest pain.Thus,the novel artificial intelligence-based fully automated,on-site CT-FFR technique can function as an objective and convenient tool for coronary stenosis functional evaluation in the real-world clinical setting.
基金项目
国家重点研发计划(2022YFC2010004)
Jiangsu Province Key Project of Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases(BE2020699)
Top Talent Support Program for young and middleaged people of Wuxi Health Committee(BJ2023044)