{"id":6095,"date":"2025-03-22T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2025-03-22T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:42:31","slug":"ai-assisted-mammography-identifies-cardiovascular-risk-key-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/ai-assisted-mammography-identifies-cardiovascular-risk-key-findings\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Assisted Mammography Identifies Cardiovascular Risk: Key Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>AI-Assisted Mammography Identifies Cardiovascular Risk: Key Findings<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr. Dapamede will present these findings at ACC.25 on Monday, March 31, at 9 a.m<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key Points:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 AI in Mammography for Heart Health: New research presented at ACC.25 explores how artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted mammography can predict a woman\u2019s cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Detecting Breast Artery Calcifications (BAC): While BAC is visible on mammograms, it is often overlooked in cardiovascular assessments. Researchers trained an AI model to analyze BAC and generate a cardiovascular risk score.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Data &amp; Model Training: The AI system was trained using mammography images and electronic health records from over 56,000 patients treated at Emory Healthcare (2013\u20132020), with at least five years of follow-up data.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Performance &amp; Impact: The AI model successfully classified patients\u2019 cardiovascular risk as low, moderate, or severe based on routine mammograms. It proved particularly beneficial for younger women (&lt;60 years old), allowing for earlier intervention and cardiology referrals.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Major Finding: Patients with severe BAC faced a 2.8 times higher five-year mortality risk compared to those without concerning BAC signs.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Future Implications: Lead author Dr. Theo Dapamede, MD, PhD, emphasized that deep learning and AI enable opportunistic screening, offering women both cancer and cardiovascular risk assessments from a single mammogram.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-Assisted Mammography Identifies Cardiovascular Risk: Key Findings Dr. Dapamede will present these findings at ACC.25 on Monday, March 31, at 9 a.m Key Points: \u2022 AI in Mammography for Heart Health: New research presented at ACC.25 explores how artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted mammography can predict a woman\u2019s cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. \u2022 Detecting Breast Artery Calcifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}