[Artificial Intelligence and teleradiology in cardiovascular imaging by CT-Scan and MRI]

Abstract

Cardiac CT-Scan and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are two booming cardiac imaging modalities especially in chest pain screening for CT-Scan and in surveillance of patients with known coronary artery disease for MRI. Artificial Intelligence is already of great help in radiologic diagnosis and its use should widen in the next few years. Teleradiology allows remote interpretation of all radiology exams and should develop in cardiac imaging. Expert radiology diagnosis centers should develop gathering cardiologists and radiologists with great experience in the field of cardiac imaging interpretation. Peripheral acquisition radiology centers would be disseminated all across the country without a need for a local expert and would send their images to the expert center for interpretation. The expert center would be the middle of this spider web, sending back the report and the selected images to the peripheral center, allowing optimal care for all patients nationwide. Artificial Intelligence would be a major asset of these expert centers, improving through the years. This operating mode would allow the onset of systematic screening for coronary artery disease in the global population and the surveillance of known coronary artery disease treated patients.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Calcium score; Cardiac CT-Scan; Cardiac MRI; Cardiovascular prevention; Cardiovascular screening; Coronaropathie; Coronary CT-Scan; Coronary artery disease; Coroscanner; Dépistage cardiovasculaire; IRM cardiaque; Intelligence artificielle; Ischémie myocardique; Maladie coronaire; Myocardial ischemia; Prévention cardiovasculaire; Scanner cardiaque; Score calcique; Teleradiology; Téléradiologie.