2021
Association Between Impaired Myocardial Flow Reserve on 82Rubidium Positron Emission Tomography Imaging and Adverse Events in Patients With Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease
Feher A, Boutagy NE, Oikonomou EK, Liu YH, Miller EJ, Sinusas AJ, Hinchcliff M. Association Between Impaired Myocardial Flow Reserve on 82Rubidium Positron Emission Tomography Imaging and Adverse Events in Patients With Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging 2021, 14: e012208. PMID: 34503339, PMCID: PMC8475774, DOI: 10.1161/circimaging.120.012208.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAutoimmune rheumatic diseasesMyocardial flow reserveLower myocardial flow reserveCox regression analysisAdverse eventsARDS diagnosisIndependent predictorsRheumatic diseasesPerfusion defectsFlow reserveNormal myocardial flow reserveLeft ventricular ejection fractionEnd pointGlobal myocardial flow reserveImpaired Myocardial Flow ReserveComorbidity-matched patientsSevere coronary calcificationCombined end pointCoronary microvascular dysfunctionHeart failure admissionsComposite end pointEvent-free survivalFramingham risk scoreLarge perfusion defectsRetrospective cohort analysis
2020
Noise reduction with cross-tracer and cross-protocol deep transfer learning for low-dose PET
Liu H, Wu J, Lu W, Onofrey JA, Liu YH, Liu C. Noise reduction with cross-tracer and cross-protocol deep transfer learning for low-dose PET. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2020, 65: 185006. PMID: 32924973, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abae08.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDeep LearningHumansImage EnhancementPositron-Emission TomographyRadiation DosageSignal-To-Noise RatioQuantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and reserve (MFR) incorporated with a novel segmentation approach: Assessments of quantitative precision and the lower limit of normal MBF and MFR in patients
Liu H, Thorn S, Wu J, Fazzone-Chettiar R, Sandoval V, Miller EJ, Sinusas AJ, Liu YH. Quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and reserve (MFR) incorporated with a novel segmentation approach: Assessments of quantitative precision and the lower limit of normal MBF and MFR in patients. Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology 2020, 28: 1236-1248. PMID: 32715416, DOI: 10.1007/s12350-020-02278-y.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2019
A robust segmentation method with triple‐factor non‐negative matrix factorization for myocardial blood flow quantification from dynamic 82Rb positron emission tomography
Liu H, Wu J, Sun J, Wu T, Fazzone‐Chettiar R, Thorn S, Sinusas AJ, Liu Y. A robust segmentation method with triple‐factor non‐negative matrix factorization for myocardial blood flow quantification from dynamic 82Rb positron emission tomography. Medical Physics 2019, 46: 5002-5013. PMID: 31444909, DOI: 10.1002/mp.13783.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2007
Quantification of nuclear cardiac images: The Yale approach
Liu YH. Quantification of nuclear cardiac images: The Yale approach. Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology 2007, 14: 483-491. PMID: 17679055, DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.06.005.Peer-Reviewed Original Research