ArticleJournal of cardiac failure2023
Electrocardiogram Detection of Pulmonary Hypertension Using Deep Learning.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Artificial intelligence in pulmonary hypertension: a systematic review.European journal of medical research · 2025Pooled it
- A Comprehensive Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Pulmonary Hypertension (PH).Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Assessing the precision of machine learning for diagnosing pulmonary arterial hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiography for pulmonary hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European heart journal. Digital health · 2026Review
- Data distribution impacts the performance and generalisability of contrastive learning-based foundation models of electrocardiograms.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Omics Approaches in the Precision Management of Pulmonary Hypertension: From Early Diagnosis to Therapeutic Stratification.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence in Pulmonary Hypertension: Current State and Future Prospects.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Machine-Reported Electrocardiographic Right Axis Deviation or Right Ventricular Hypertrophy and Echocardiographic Pulmonary Hypertension Phenotypes and Right-Heart Abnormalities.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2026Observational
- Temporal Convolutional Neural Network Analysis of Magnetocardiography Signals for Detection of Pulmonary Hypertension.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- HIV-Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Resource-Limited Settings: A "Forgotten" Diagnosis, a Great Imitator, and a Multi-Hit Pulmonary Vasculopathy.Pulmonary circulation · 2026Review
- Foundation models for electrocardiogram interpretation: clinical implications.European heart journal · 2026Article
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- Multimodal Transformer-Based Electrocardiogram Analysis for Cardiovascular Comorbidity Detection: Model Development and Validation Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- AI-ECG for Echocardiography Triage in Structural Heart Disease: Evidence, Implementation, and Future Directions.International journal of general medicine · 2026Review
- The role of artificial intelligence and mobile health in diagnosis and management of pulmonary arterial hypertension.International journal of cardiology. Congenital heart disease · 2025Review
- Performance of an artificial intelligence-powered smartphone application in the UK clinical settings: ECG automation compared to healthcare professionals.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence electrocardiogram as a novel screening tool to detect and longitudinally monitor high-risk echocardiographic features in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Foundation models for generalizable electrocardiogram interpretation: comparison of supervised and self-supervised electrocardiogram foundation models.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- An ensemble learning model for detection of pulmonary hypertension using electrocardiogram, chest X-ray, and brain natriuretic peptide.European heart journal. Digital health · 2025Article
- Development and Evaluation of a Deep Learning-Based Pulmonary Hypertension Screening Algorithm Using a Digital Stethoscope.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundPulmonary hypertension (PH) is life-threatening, and often diagnosed late in its course. We aimed to evaluate if a deep learning approach using electrocardiogram (ECG) data alone can detect PH and clinically important subtypes. We asked: does an automated deep learning approach to ECG interpretation detect PH and its clinically important subtypes? METHODS AND
resultsAdults with right heart catheterization or an echocardiogram within 90 days of an ECG at the University of California, San Francisco (2012-2019) were retrospectively identified as PH or non-PH. A deep convolutional neural network was trained on patients' 12-lead ECG voltage data. Patients were divided into training, development, and test sets in a ratio of 7:1:2. Overall, 5016 PH and 19,454 patients without PH were used in the study. The mean age at the time of ECG was 62.29 ± 17.58 years and 49.88% were female. The mean interval between ECG and right heart catheterization or echocardiogram was 3.66 and 2.23 days for patients with PH and patients without PH, respectively. In the test dataset, the model achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity, and specificity, respectively of 0.89, 0.79, and 0.84 to detect PH; 0.91, 0.83, and 0.84 to detect precapillary PH; 0.88, 0.81, and 0.81 to detect pulmonary arterial hypertension, and 0.80, 0.73, and 0.76 to detect group 3 PH. We additionally applied the trained model on ECGs from participants in the test dataset that were obtained from up to 2 years before diagnosis of PH; the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.79 or greater.
conclusionsA deep learning ECG algorithm can detect PH and PH subtypes around the time of diagnosis and can detect PH using ECGs that were done up to 2 years before right heart catheterization/echocardiogram diagnosis. This approach has the potential to decrease diagnostic delays in PH.
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