Moving beyond two-dimensional screens to interactive three-dimensional visualization in congenital heart disease

Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Aug;36(8):1567-1573. doi: 10.1007/s10554-020-01853-1. Epub 2020 Apr 25.

Abstract

Beginning with the discovery of X-rays to the development of three-dimensional (3D) imaging, improvements in acquisition, post-processing, and visualization have provided clinicians with detailed information for increasingly accurate medical diagnosis and clinical management. This paper highlights advances in imaging technologies for congenital heart disease (CHD), medical adoption, and future developments required to improve pre-procedural and intra-procedural guidance.

Keywords: 3D imaging; Artificial intelligence; Congenital heart disease; Interactive 3D visualization.

Publication types

  • Review
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional*
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart / physiopathology
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / physiopathology
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / therapy
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Models, Anatomic
  • Models, Cardiovascular
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Printing, Three-Dimensional*
  • Prognosis
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*