Steffen E. Petersen

TL;DR: A continuous transmural distribution of the helical angle is obligatory for smooth shortening of the cardiomyocytes, but a combination of torsional and transmural angulation changes is necessary to execute systolic mural thickening whilst keeping shortening to within its physiological range.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a novel deep neural network using both CMR images and patient metadata to directly predict cardiac shape parameters, using the promising ability of statistical shape models to simplify shape complexity and variability together with the advantages of convolutional neural networks for the extraction of solid visual features.

TL;DR: This work provides a relatively simple explanation for left ventricular (LV) twist that does not rely on the presence of a unique myocardial band, and shows how the strain indexes of the wall, including mural thickening, are mathematically bound together by this geometry, irrespective of the internal architecture of the building.

TL;DR: Non-white ethnicity, male sex, greater BMI, diabetes, hypertension, prior MI, and smoking were independently associated with COVID-19 positivity compared to the remining cohort (test negatives plus untested), suggesting that these factors associate with general hospitalisation rather than specifically with CO VID-19.

TL;DR: An updated version of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Core Syllabus for the European Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Certification Exam is now available online.