Over the past decade, rapid advances in imaging technologies have enabled state-of-the-art image-based analysis of cardiac function at a variety of scales and from multiple aspects, such as cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac biomechanics, and cardiovascular system. This special issue aims to showcase developments in cardiac image computing over the past five years, with a special emphasis given...

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Early diagnostic markers are gaining popularity for better patient care disease outcomes. There is an increasing interest in noninvasive cardiac imaging biomarkers to diagnose subclinical cardiac disease. Feature tracking cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is a novel post-processing technique that is increasingly bei...

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium. Despite the progress of laboratory data and cardiac imaging, the diagnosis of myocarditis remains a problem in clinical practice. We report the role of non invasive cardiac imaging techniques as echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of acute myocarditis.

Over the last several years, cardiovascular MRI has benefited from a number of technical advances which have improved routine clinical imaging techniques. As a result, MRI is now well positioned to realize its longstanding promise of becoming the comprehensive cardiac imaging test of choice in many clinical settings. This may be achieved using a combination of basic advanced techniques. In this...

The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is important in cardiac pathophysiology. By increasing heart rate and arterial blood pressure, the SNS plays a central role to adapt cardiac performance to conditions of increased external needs. Accordingly, a sympathetic surge instantaneously ameliorates left ventricular (LV) contractility and relaxation, abruptly increasing cardiac working capacities. How...

introduction heart failure is the second most common cause of ascites after cirrhosis. there are cardiac and noncardiac etiologies of ascites, and the multimodality imaging approach is a rich tool to redefine the final diagnosis. case presentation we present a case-series where 3 patients were referred to our hospital for further hepatology assessment due to severe abdominal ascites and liver f...

UNLABELLED Myocardial fibrosis is always present in end-stage heart failure and is a major independent predictor of adverse cardiac outcome. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is an imaging method that permits a non-invasive assessment of the heart and has been established as the "gold standard" for the evaluation of cardiac anatomy and function, as well as for quantifying focal myocardial fibros...

Imaging of cardiac function and anatomy has advanced at an exponential rate over the past two decades. Our ability to quantitatively assess the degree of myocardial ischemia and accurately define the vascular anatomy using noninvasive techniques is greater than ever before. Current advances is cardiac imaging are allowing us to more safely assess patients for myocardial ischemia and better unde...