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Artificial Intelligence to Assess the Association Between Facial Characteristics and Coronary Artery Diseases

Completed
Conditions
Coronary Artery Disease
Interventions
Other: No intervention
Registration Number
NCT03731936
Lead Sponsor
China National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases
Brief Summary

The purposes of this study are 1) to explore the association between facial characteristics and the increased risk of coronary artery diseases; 2) to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of appearance factors for coronary artery diseases.

Detailed Description

Several age-related appearance factors were described associated with increased risk of coronary artery diseases (CAD). However, several limitations made these facial risk factors hard to be utilized in clinical practice, including 1) low prevalence in CAD patients, 2) lack of specific definition, 3) poor reproducibility in artificial recognition.

Thus, the investigators designed a multi-center, cross-sectional study to explore the association between facial characteristics and CAD and evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of appearance factors for CAD. The investigators will recruit patients undergoing coronary angiography or coronary computer tomography angiography. Patients' baseline information and facial images will be collected. First, the investigators will explore the facial factors associated with CAD by using artificial intelligence technology to compare facial photographs between patients with CAD and without CAD. Secondary, the investigators will evaluate the dose-response relationship between facial characteristics and CAD. Third, the investigators will establish a CAD risk model based on facial factors, and evaluate the diagnostic effect of the model.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
6864
Inclusion Criteria
  • Undergoing coronary angiography or coronary computer tomography angiography
  • Written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
  • Prior percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
  • Prior coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
  • Screening coronary artery disease before treating other heart diseases
  • Without blood biochemistry outcome
  • With artificially facial alteration (i.e. cosmetic surgery, facial trauma or make-up)
  • Other situations which make patients fail to be photographed

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Model establishment and test groupNo interventionPatients undergoing coronary angiography or coronary computer tomography angiography will be enrolled. Patients data will be used to establish the facial based diagnostic model of coronary artery diseases, and to prospectively validate the diagnostic effectiveness of the model.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sensitivity of diagnostic modelat the end of enrollment (6 months)

The sensitivity of coronary artery diagnostic model assessed in model test group

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Diagnostic accuracy rateat the end of enrollment (6 months)

Diagnostic accuracy rate of diagnostic model assessed in model test group

Specificity of diagnostic modelat the end of enrollment (6 months)

Area under receiver operating curve (AUC) of diagnostic model assessed in model test group

Positive predictive value (PPV)at the end of enrollment (6 months)

PPV of diagnostic model assessed in model test group

Negative predictive value (NPV)at the end of enrollment (6 months)

NPV of diagnostic model assessed in model test group

Trial Locations

Locations (9)

Beijing Anzhen hospital

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Beijing, Beijing, China

Fuwai hospital

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Beijing, Beijing, China

Guanganmen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Beijing, Beijing, China

The fisrt affiliated hospital of Wenzhou medical university

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Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

The first affiliated hospital of Dalian medical university

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Dalian, Liangning, China

Shanghai Renji hospital

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Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Wuhan union hospital

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Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xuzhou third people's hospital

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Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Shanghai East hospital

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Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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