Automated Diagnostic Reports from Images of Electrocardiograms at the Point-of-Care.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.17.24302976 Authors: Khunte, Akshay; Sangha, Veer; Oikonomou, Evangelos K; Dhingra, Lovedeep S; Aminorroaya, Arya; Coppi, Andreas; Shankar, Sumukh Vasisht; Mortazavi, Bobak J; Bhatt, Deepak L; Krumholz, Harlan M; Nadkarni, Girish N; Vaid, Akhil; Khera, Rohan Abstract: Timely and accurate assessment of electrocardiograms (ECGs) is crucial for diagnosing, triaging, and clinically managing patients. Current workflows…

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A foundational vision transformer improves diagnostic performance for electrocardiograms.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00840-9 Authors: Vaid, Akhil; Jiang, Joy; Sawant, Ashwin; Lerakis, Stamatios; Argulian, Edgar; Ahuja, Yuri; Lampert, Joshua; Charney, Alexander; Greenspan, Hayit; Narula, Jagat; Glicksberg, Benjamin; Nadkarni, Girish N Abstract: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a ubiquitous diagnostic modality. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied towards ECG analysis require large sample sizes, and transfer learning approaches for biomedical…

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Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cognitive Impairment, and Neuroimaging Biomarkers: Results from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging.

Link: https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-220368 Authors: Vassilaki, Maria; Crowson, Cynthia S; Davis Iii, John M; Duong, Stephanie Q; Jones, David T; Nguyen, Aivi; Mielke, Michelle M; Vemuri, Prashanthi; Myasoedova, Elena Abstract: Observational studies suggested that dementia risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is higher than in the general population. To examine the associations of RA with cognitive…

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Incidence, prevalence and mortality of chronic periaortitis: a population-based study.

Link: https://doi.org/10.55563/clinexprheumatol/0v8l4j Authors: Koster, Matthew J; Ghaffar, Umar; Duong, Stephanie Q; Crowson, Cynthia S; Burke, Michelle M; Viers, Boyd R; Potretzke, Aaron M; Bjarnason, Haraldur; Warrington, Kenneth J Abstract: To evaluate the epidemiology, presentation and outcomes of patients with chronic periaortitis from 1998 through 2018. An inception cohort of patients with incident chronic periaortitis from…

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