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ArticleThe Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2025

Machine learning methods to predict transvalvular gradient waveform post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement using preprocedural echocardiogram.

Wenyuan Song, Taylor Sirset-Becker, Luis René Mata Quinonez, Dhruv Polsani, Venkateshwar Polsani, Pradeep Yadav, Vinod Thourani, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi

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Wenyuan SongSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Taylor Sirset-BeckerDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio.
Luis René Mata QuinonezDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Dhruv PolsaniDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Venkateshwar PolsaniDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Ga.
Pradeep YadavDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Ga.
Vinod ThouraniDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Ga.
Lakshmi Prasad DasiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Electronic address: lakshmi.dasi@gatech.edu.

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Patient-specific blood cell reactivity and flow dynamic profiles in transcatheter aortic valve replacementR01HL167442 · NHLBI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI Joseph E Aslan, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL167442
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Abstract

objectiveTime-varying transvalvular pressure gradient after transcatheter aortic valve replacement indicates the effectiveness of the therapy. The objective was to develop a novel machine learning method enhanced by generative artificial intelligence and smart data selection strategies to predict the post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement gradient waveform using preprocedural Doppler echocardiogram.

methodsA total of 110 patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (mean age 78.2 ± 9.0 years, 52.5% female) were included for pressure gradient collection. A deep machine learning model was trained and tested to predict postprocedural pressure gradient waveform from preprocedural pressure gradient waveform based on the proposed generative active learning framework.

resultsThe trained model demonstrated an average prediction accuracy of 84.85% across the 10 test patients measured from the relative mean absolute error between the predicted gradient waveform and the ground truth. The generative method improved prediction accuracy by 3.11%, whereas the data selection strategy increased it by 16.03% compared with the baseline experimental group using plain machine learning. Additionally, Bland-Altman analysis demonstrated a strong agreement between the proposed method and clinical measurements for both mean and peak pressure gradient predictions.

conclusionsA deep, generative, active machine learning model was developed to output the prediction of post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement time-varying pressure gradient from the preprocedural time-varying gradient obtained from Doppler echocardiogram. Such a predictive method may help guide decision-making for the prevention of various post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement complications. Further studies are necessary to investigate the gradient change of other valve types.

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Aortic ValveAortic Valve StenosisEchocardiography, DopplerMachine LearningTranscatheter Aortic Valve ReplacementAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHemodynamicsHumansMalePredictive Value of TestsTime FactorsTreatment Outcomedeep machine learninggenerative active learninggenerative artificial intelligencepredictive surgical planningpressure gradienttranscatheter aortic valve implantation/replacement

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PMCPMC12726822

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