Self-supervised deep learning model for coronary artery segmentation from invasive X-ray coronary angiography (ICA), designed to reduce reliance on large annotated datasets. CM-UNet combines a Contrastive Masked Autoencoder (CMAE) with a UNet backbone: an online encoder-decoder branch reconstructs masked image patches while a momentum branch produces contrastive embeddings, jointly pretraining the network on unannotated angiography images before fine-tuning on a small labeled set. Fine-tuning with only 18 annotated images (instead of 500) led to just a 15.2% drop in Dice score, versus a 46.5% drop for baseline models trained without this self-supervised pretraining -- demonstrating strong label efficiency for coronary segmentation.

Domain-Shuffle Temporal Attention Network for coronary vessel extraction from X-ray coronary angiography (XCA), trained entirely on synthetic temporal XCA data without requiring manual vessel annotations. By leveraging synthetic data generation and a domain-shuffle temporal attention mechanism, DOSTA-Net avoids the need for costly expert-labeled real angiography sequences while still learning temporally consistent vessel segmentation across frames of an XCA sequence.

Automatic coronary artery segmentation pipeline for coronary CT angiography (CCTA). A 2D DenseNet classifier first screens out CT slices that don't contain coronary artery, then a 3D-UNet -- enhanced with dense blocks in the encoder for richer feature extraction and residual, feature-rectifying blocks in the decoder -- segments the coronary artery tree in the remaining slices. A Gaussian-weighted merging scheme combines overlapping 3D patch predictions, up-weighting the more reliable predictions near each patch's center. On the authors' in-house CCTA dataset, the method achieved a Dice similarity coefficient of 0.826.

Open-source, user-guided deep learning tool for coronary artery segmentation from invasive coronary angiography (ICA), designed to improve on traditional quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) edge-detection algorithms that typically require manual correction. Rather than segmenting the whole coronary tree indiscriminately, AngioPy lets the user click a handful of ground-truth points along a specific target vessel (including side branches), and predicts a binary mask for that single artery at the chosen cardiac-cycle time-step. Evaluated against an established QCA system on angiograms from the FAME 2 trial, AngioPy achieved an average F1 score of 0.927 (internal) and 0.924 (external validation), with vessel-diameter and lesion minimal-lumen-diameter measurements showing excellent agreement with QCA (r=0.93-0.96).

Deep channel-attention network for segmenting the full coronary vessel tree from sequential X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) frames, rather than a single static image. An encoder-decoder architecture fuses temporal-spatial feature maps across the XCA sequence via skip connections, then uses channel-attention blocks in the decoder to refine features and separate thin vessel structures from complex, noisy backgrounds; a Dice loss addresses the severe foreground/background class imbalance typical of XCA. The authors report that SVS-net outperforms prior 2D and video-based baselines on both quantitative vessel-segmentation metrics and visual validation.

Two-stage convolutional neural network that automatically detects and anatomically labels coronary artery, thoracic aorta, and cardiac-valve calcifications in low-dose chest CT acquired for lung-cancer screening. A first CNN with a large receptive field (via dilated convolutions) identifies and anatomically labels candidate calcifications; a second CNN filters true positives from the candidates. Trained and evaluated on 1,744 CT scans from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), reaching an F1 of 0.89 (soft-filter reconstructions) / 0.84 (sharp-filter reconstructions) for coronary artery calcifications and a linearly-weighted kappa of 0.90-0.91 for per-subject cardiovascular risk categorization versus the manual reference standard.

Deep learning platform for fully automatic segmentation and phenotyping of coronary intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) pullbacks, packaged with a desktop GUI and CLI. A convolutional encoder-decoder network delineates the internal (lumen) and external elastic lamina borders on each cross-sectional IVUS frame; downstream rule-based analysis derives lumen area, plaque area, plaque burden, automatically flags lesions with plaque burden exceeding 40%, and reports minimum lumen area and maximum plaque burden along the pullback. Also supports end-diastolic gating and manual contour editing. Trained on 305 clinical IVUS pullbacks (270 train / 35 validation) from Philips and Boston Scientific catheters at Emory University; downstream evaluations have applied DeepIVUS to tasks such as automated detection of stent underexpansion.

Self-supervised model that performs single-frame digital-subtraction-angiography-style vessel/background separation directly from a single live (non-subtracted) coronary angiogram frame, then supports fine-tuned coronary vessel segmentation. A U-Net-style network is pretrained via an image-to-image translation objective on 58,128 unannotated angiography DICOM series (3,756 patients), then fine-tuned for vessel segmentation on just 40 expert-annotated frames, reaching a Dice of 0.828 on the held-out fine-tuning set and a new state-of-the-art Dice of 0.755 on the public XCAD benchmark. Intended to help clinicians visualize potential stenosis sites without requiring true two-frame digital subtraction acquisition.

nnU-Net-based segmentation network that detects and delineates stenotic lesions directly from X-ray coronary angiography frames, developed for the ARCADE (MICCAI 2023) stenosis-detection challenge. A companion model (YOLO-Angio, same team) handles vessel-tree segmentation; StenUNet focuses specifically on pixel-wise localization of stenotic regions. Placed 3rd overall among ARCADE challenge entrants with an F1 score of 0.5348 on the hold-out test set, within 0.0005 of the 2nd-place team.

U-Net-variant segmentation model that identifies and quantifies coronary artery calcium (CAC) directly from routine non-gated, non-contrast chest CT scans -- the kind ordered for lung-cancer screening or unrelated indications rather than a dedicated cardiac scan -- so that the tens of millions of such scans performed annually can be opportunistically screened for cardiovascular risk without any extra imaging. Predicted calcium masks are combined with the CT's Hounsfield units to compute an Agatston-equivalent score. Trained on 446 expert-segmented scans from 98 medical centers across the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs national health system (capturing substantial heterogeneity in scanners and protocols) and benchmarked against 795 patients with a paired same-year gated CAC study: nongated AI-CAC differentiates zero-vs-nonzero and <100-vs->=100 Agatston categories with 89.4% (F1 0.93) and 87.3% (F1 0.89) accuracy respectively, and its score stratifies 10-year all-cause mortality (CAC 0 vs. >400: 25.4% vs. 60.2%, hazard ratio 3.49) and composite stroke/MI/death risk (33.5% vs. 63.8%, hazard ratio 3.00). In a simulated opportunistic-screening run across 8,052 low-dose CT scans, cardiologists confirmed 99.2% of patients flagged with AI-CAC >400 would benefit from lipid-lowering therapy. Code and trained model weights are both public under an MIT license.

Fully automated pipeline for interpreting coronary angiograms that chains four purpose-built neural networks: (1) angiographic projection-angle identification, (2) left/right coronary artery detection, (3) arterial segment localization, and (4) stenosis-severity estimation. Trained on 13,843 angiographic studies (195,195 videos) from 11,972 adult patients at UCSF (2008-2019), with projection-angle and LCA/RCA-detection tasks each reaching precision/sensitivity/F1 at or above 90%. For predicting obstructive coronary artery disease (>=70% stenosis), CathAI reaches an AUC of 0.862 internally, 0.869 on external angiograms from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and 0.775 after retraining on quantitative-coronary-angiography labels from the Montreal Heart Institute core lab. No public code or model weights have been released.

Largest federated cardiac CT analysis to date (n=8,104 scans) across a real-world federation of German university hospitals, addressing partially-labeled data across sites via a two-step semi-supervised knowledge-distillation strategy: task-specific CNNs first predict on unlabeled data per label type, then a SWIN-UNETR transformer learns from these predictions with label-specific heads. Learns a single federated model that simultaneously predicts TAVI-relevant landmarks (aortic hinge points, coronary ostia, membranous septum) and calcification from cardiac CT, improving generalizability over UNet-based baselines on downstream tasks.

Multimodal cardiac MRI foundation model that fuses 3D+T cine CMR (short-axis and long-axis views) with tabular patient health records (demographics, metabolic, and lifestyle factors) from 42,000 UK Biobank participants. Two-stage self-supervised pretraining -- masked-image reconstruction, then imaging-tabular contrastive alignment -- produces representations that transfer to whole-heart segmentation, cardiac phenotype/physiological-feature regression, and cardiac/metabolic disease classification within one unified framework.

Fully automatic pipeline that localizes the heart, segments coronary calcium, and produces an Agatston-style coronary artery calcium score from gated and non-gated chest/cardiac CT. A three-stage 3D CNN performs each step in sequence. Validated across the Framingham, NLST, PROMISE, and ROMICAT-II cohorts, where the resulting calcium score predicted cardiovascular events with hazard ratios up to 4.3. Developed by the Harvard AIM Lab.

Segments coronary vessels from invasive X-ray angiography images and automatically quantifies the degree of stenosis along the extracted centerlines. Combines MedSAM, a Segment-Anything-style vision model, with a Mamba-based VM-UNet segmentation branch for efficient long-range feature modeling. Trained and evaluated on the ARCADE, DCA1, and GH angiography datasets by researchers at Ocean University of China and Shandong University.