2026

  1. Vaseli H, Groenewoud R, Percy E, Luong C. Subacute aortic dissection presenting as heart failure due to aortic valve insufficiency and right coronary artery dissection. BMJ Case Reports CP 2026;19:e272319.
  2. Kim D, Wu V, To M, Khodabahkshian B, Hashemi N, Abdalla S, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P, Luong C. TREAT-Netv2: regional wall motion-informed video–tabular fusion for ACS treatment prediction. Int J CARS 21, 1171–1178 (2026). doi:10.1007/s11548-026-03652-w (Best Presentation Shortlist at 2026 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery)
  3. Daghyani M, Wang L, Hashemi N, Medhat B, Abdelsamad B, Rojas Velez E, Li X, Tsang M, Luong C, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. EchoAgent: guideline-centric reasoning agent for echocardiography measurement and interpretation. Int J CARS 21, 1293–1300 (2026). doi:10.1007/s11548-026-03694-0
  4. Saadat A, Hashemi N, Khodabakhshian B, Tsang M, Luong C, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. Optimizing point-of-care ultrasound video acquisition for probabilistic multi-task heart failure detection. Int J CARS 21, 1151–1159 (2026). doi:10.1007/s11548-026-03680-6
  5. To M, Kim D., Harmanani M. Paul F. R. Wilson, Fooladgar F, Sojoudi S, Jamzad A, Abdalla S, Tsang T, Luong C, Chang S, Black P, Siemens R, Leveridge M, Krishnan R, Mousavi P, Abolmaesumi P. Shift happens: a fairness-oriented framework for medical classification under hidden bias. Int J CARS 21, 1025–1032 (2026). doi:10.1007/s11548-026-03624-0
  6. Yoon J, Yeung C, Wong J, Mazengarb J, Tsang T, Luong C, Tsang M, Davis M, Jue J, Gin K, Nair P, Loree J, Yeung D. Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of neuroendocrine tumours and carcinoid heart disease: insights from a contemporary Canadian cohort. CJCO. 2026.
  7. Rojas E, Li T, To N, Wu V, Luong C, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P, "EchoPCBM: adaptively fitting PCBM architectures for echocardiographic diagnosis and explainability," Proc. SPIE 13927, Medical Imaging 2026: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 139270E (1 April 2026); doi:10.1117/12.3083288
  8. Kim D. To M.N.N, Abdalla S, Tsang T.S.M, Abolmaesumi P, Luong, C. (2026). TREAT-Net: Tabular-Referenced Echocardiography Analysis for Acute Coronary Syndrome Treatment Prediction. In: Ni, D., Noble, A., Huang, R., Xue, W. (eds) Simplifying Medical Ultrasound. ASMUS 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16165. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-06329-8_23
  9. Wu V, Fung A, Khodabakhshian B, Abdelsamad B, Vaseli H, Ahmadi N, Goco JAD, Tsang MY, Luong C, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang TSM. MultiASNet: Multimodal Label Noise Robust Framework for the Classification of Aortic Stenosis in Echocardiography. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2026 Feb;45(2):799-810. doi:10.1109/TMI.2025.3609319. PMID: 40938712.
  10. Mashhourinejad P, Yeung D, Tsang M, Tsang TSM, Gin K, Jue J, Sayre E, and Luong C. Impact of a Fully Integrated One-Click Automated Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Tool on Echocardiography Reporting. CJCO. 2026. 8(5): 587-594.

2025

  1. Luong C and Tsang W. Not There Yet: Rethinking the Path for Echocardiography Tissue Characterization with Artificial Intelligence (invited editorial). JASE. 2025 May 30:S0894-7317(25)00271-8. doi:10.1016/j.echo.2025.05.011.
  2. Barison A, Timoteo AT, El Messaoudi S, Borodzicz-Jazdzyk S, Moscatelli S, Mandoli G, Luong C, et al. Cardiovascular imaging in 2024: review of current research and innovations. European Heart Journal – Imaging Methods and Practice. 2025 May 17;3(1):qyaf066. doi:10.1093/ehjimp/qyaf066.

2024

  1. Mai V, Taneja A, Larjava H, Chehroudi B, MacDonald D, Luong C. Calcified carotid artery atheroma on standard dental radiographs: A public health opportunity for cardiovascular risk reduction. Am J Prev Cardiol. 2024;19:100714. doi:10.1016/j.ajpc.2024.100714
  2. Lu N, Vaseli, H Mahdavi, M Taheri Dezaki F, Luong C, Yeung D, Gin K, Tsang M, Nair P, Jue J, Barnes M, Behnami D, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. S. Automated Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis by Echocardiography without ECG: Accuracy and Applications of a New Deep Learning Approach. Diseases. 2024. 12(2), 35. doi:10.3390/diseases12020035
  3. Yim J, Mahdavi M, Vaseli H, Luong C, Tsang MYC, Yeung DF, et al. Assessment of left ventricular wall thickness and dimension: accuracy of a deep learning model with prediction uncertainty. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024;40(10):2157-65.
  4. Shirvani D, Kim J, Lam J, Tsang M, Yeung D, Price J, and Luong C. Color Doppler Aliasing: Unmasking the Diagnosis of Cardiac Rosai-Dorfman. CASE. 2024;8(7):376-80
  5. Barison A, Timoteo AT, Liga R, Borodzicz-Jazdzyk S, El Messaoudi S, Luong C, et al. Cardiovascular imaging research and innovation in 2023: a review by the Research and Innovation Committee of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). European Heart Journal – Imaging Methods and Practice. Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2024, qyae029, doi:10.1093/ehjimp/qyae029
  6. Luong C*, Jafari M*, Behnami D*, Shah Y*, Straatman L, Van Woudenberg N, Christoff L, Gwadry N, Hawkins N, Sayre E, Yeung D, Tsang M, Gin K, Jue J, Nair P, Abolmaesumi P, Teresa T. Validation of machine learning models for estimation of left ventricular ejection fraction on point-of-care ultrasound: Insights on features that impact performance. Echo Res Pract. Mar 28 2024;11(1):9. doi:10.1186/s44156-024-00043-2.

2023

  1. Luong C, Anand V, Padang S, Oh J, Arruda-Olson A, Bird J, Pislaru C, Thaden J, Pislaru S, Pellikka P, McCully R, Kane G. Prognostic Significance of Elevated Left Ventricular Filling Pressures with Exercise: Insights from a Cohort of 14, 446 patients. JASE. 2023 Nov. S0894-7317(23)00595-3. doi:10.1016/j.echo.2023.11.012.
  2. Wong, J, Finlayson, S, Loree, J, Straatman, L, Nair, P, Tsang, M, Luong, C, Tsang, T, Gin, K, Jue, J., Yeung, D. Recovery of Tricuspid Valve Function After Resection of a Primary Ovarian Carcinoid Tumor. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023;16(11):e014772
  3. Mokhtari M, Mahdavi M, Vaseli H, Luong C, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T, Liao R. EchoGLAD: Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Left Ventricle Landmark Detection on Echocardiograms. In: Greenspan, H., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023. MICCAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14223. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43901-8_22.
  4. Yim J, Tsang MY, Venkataraman A, Balthazaar S, Gin K, Jue J, Nair P, Luong C, Yeung DF, Moss R, Virani SA, McKay J, Williams M, Sayre EC, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang TS. Cardiac Phenotyping of SARS-CoV-2 in British Columbia: A Prospective Echo Study With Strain Imaging. J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 Jul;31(3):125-132. doi:10.4250/jcvi.2022.0120
  5. Yang C, Zypchen L, Sohi D, Luong C. Pericardial Effusion and Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome Late Post-SARS-CoV2 Vaccination. BMJ Case Reports. 2023 Oct; 16(10):e256527. doi:10.1136/bcr-2023-256527.
  6. Luong C*, Behnami D*, Liao Z, Yeung D, Tsang M, Van Woudenberg N, Gin K, Sayre E, Jue J, Nair P, Hawley D, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Machine learning derived echocardiographic image quality in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: insights on the echo views of greatest image quality. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023;39(7):1313-21.
  7. Yim J, Chang SA, Yeung DF, Sayre EC, Gin K, Jue J, Nair P, Tsang MYC, Luong C, Tsang TSM. Quantification of pleural effusions by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. Journal of Echocardiography. 2023;21:33-39. doi:10.1007/s12574-022-00586-5

2022

  1. Goco JAD, Jafari M, Luong C, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. An efficient deep landmark detection network for PLAX EF estimation using sparse annotations. Proc. SPIE 12034, Medical Imaging 2022: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 120340N (4 April 2022); doi:10.1117/12.2611239
  2. Jafari MH, Luong C, Tsang M, Gu AN, Van Woudenberg N, Rohling R, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. U-LanD: Uncertainty-Driven Video Landmark Detection. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2022;41:793-804. doi:10.1109/tmi.2021.3123547.
  3. Esfeh MMK, Gholami Z, Luong C, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. DEBE Delta Ensemble Uncertainty Estimation for a More Robust Estimation of Ejection Fraction. Presented at: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022: 25th International Conference, Singapore, September 18–22, 2022, Proceedings, Part VIII; 2022; Singapore, Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16452-1_50
  4. Mahdavi M, Vaseli H, Luong C, Van Woudenberg N, Jafari M, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Differential Learning from Sparse and Noisy Labels for Robust Detection of Clinical Landmarks in Echo Cine Series. In: Simplifying Medical Ultrasound. Springer International Publishing; 2022:44-53.
  5. Kang X, Jafari M, Kazemi MM, Luong C, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. A light-weight deep video network: towards robust assessment of ejection fraction on mobile devices. Proc. SPIE. 12034,Medical Imaging 2022: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 120341 (4 April 2022); doi:10.1117/12.2611176
  6. Ostad Karampour S, Sedlak T, Luong C, Price J, Brunner N. A case report of pericardial constriction with coexisting severe left main coronary artery disease. Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2022 Jul 2;6(7):ytac272. doi:10.1093/ehjcr/ytac272.
  7. Jiang R, Yeung D, Behnami D, Luong C, Tsang M, Jue J, Gin K, Nair P, Abolmaesumi P, and Tsang T. A Novel Continuous Left Ventricular Diastolic Function Score Using Machine Learning. JASE. 2022 Jun 24;S0894-7317(22)00308-X. doi:10.1016/j.echo.2022.06.005.
  8. Yim J, Gin K, Tsang T, Luong C, Lehman A, Ong K, Tsang M, Jue J, Nair P, Nasmith T, and Yeung D. Incidentally identified left ventricular apical aneurysm in a patient with Fabry disease. Echocardiography. 2022 Aug;39(8):1131-1137. doi:10.1111/echo.15412.

2021

  1. Luong C, Saboktakin Rizi S, Gin K, Jue J, Yeung D, Tsang M, Sayre E, and Tsang T. Prevalence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction by single echocardiographic view: towards an evidence-based point of care cardiac ultrasound scanning protocol. International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging. 2021. doi:10.1007/s10554-021-02460-4.
  2. Dezaki F*, Luong C*, Ginsberg T, Rohling R, Gin K, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Echo-SyncNet: Self-Supervised Cardiac View Synchronization in Echocardiography. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2021; 40: 2092-2104.
  3. Luong C, Kim J, Wong G, Klein R, and Brunner N. Loculated Pericardial Effusion: An uncommon cause of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. JACC: Case Reports.2021;3:128-132.
  4. Dezaki F*, Ginsberg T*, Luong C*, Vaseli H, Rohling R, Gin K, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Rhythm Net: Semi-Supervised Learning for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in Echocardiography. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
  5. Ginsberg T, Tal R-E, Tsang M, Macdonald C, Dezaki FT, Van Der Kuur J, Luong C, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Deep Video Networks for Automatic Assessment of Aortic Stenosis in Echocardiography. In: Simplifying Medical Ultrasound. Springer International Publishing; 2021:202-210.
  6. Gu A, Jafari M, Luong C, Tsang T and Abolmaesumi P. Echocardiogram View Conversion using Clinically Constrained Conditional GAN. 2021 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). 2021.
  7. Brunner NW, Legkaia L, Al-Ahmadi F, Lee L, Norena M, Lam CSM, Yim JJ, Luong C, Weatherald J, Nador RG, Levy RD and Swiston JR. Does community size or commute time affect severity of illness at diagnosis or quality of care in a centralized care model of pulmonary hypertension? Int J Cardiol. 2021;332:175-181.
  8. Inohara T, Gilhofer T, Luong C, Tsang M and Saw J. VersaCross radiofrequency system reduces time to left atrial access versus conventional mechanical needle. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2021. doi:10.1007/s10840-020-00931-7.
  9. Yau O, Gin K, Luong C, Jue J, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang M, Nair P and Tsang T. Point-of-care ultrasound in the COVID-19 era: A scoping review. Echocardiography. 2021;38:329-342
  10. Jafari M*, Woudenberg N*, Luong C*, Abolmaesumi P and Tsang T. Deep Bayesian Image Segmentation For A More Robust Ejection Fraction Estimation. 2021 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Nice, France, 2021, 1264-1268, doi:10.1109/ISBI48211.2021.9433781.

2020

  1. Luong C*, Liao Z *, Abdi A*, Girgis H, Rohling R, Gin K, Jue J, Yeung D, Szefer E, Thompson D, Tsang M, Lee P, Nair P, Abolmaesumi P, and Tsang T. Automated estimation of echocardiogram image quality in hospitalized patients. International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging. 2020;doi:10.1007/s10554-020-01981-8.
  2. Kazemi Esfeh MM*, Luong C*, Behnami D, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. A Deep Bayesian Video Analysis Framework: Towards a More Robust Estimation of Ejection Fraction. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020: Springer International Publishing; 2020:582-590.
  3. Yeung D, Jiang R, Behnami D, Jue J, Sharma R, Turaga M, Luong C, Tsang M, Gin K, Girgis H, Lee P, Nair P, Abolmaesumi P and Tsang T. Impact of the updated diastolic function guidelines in the real world. International Journal of Cardiology. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.10.068.
  4. Lopez-Jimenez F, Attia Z, Arruda-Olson AM, Carter R, Chareonthaitawee P, Jouni H, Kapa S, Lerman A, Luong C, Medina-Inojosa JR, Noseworthy PA, Pellikka PA, Redfield MM, Roger VL, Sandhu GS, Senecal C and Friedman PA. Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology: Present and Future. Mayo Clin Proc. 2020;95: 1015-1039.
  5. Andrade J, Yao R, Deyell M, Hawkins N, Rizkallah J, Jolly U, Khoo C, Raymond J, McKinney J, Cheung C, Steinberg C, Ha A, Ramanathan K, Luong C, Glover B, Verma A, Macle L, Khairy P and Investigators C-DS. Clinical assessment of AF pattern is poorly correlated with AF burden and post ablation outcomes: A CIRCA-DOSE sub-study. J Electrocardiol. 2020;60:159-164.
  6. Jafari MH, Girgis H, Van Woudenberg N, Moulson N, Luong C, Fung A, Balthazaar S, Jue J, Tsang M, Nair P, Gin K, Rohling R, Abolmaesumi P and Tsang T. Cardiac point-of-care to cart-based ultrasound translation using constrained CycleGAN. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 2020;15(5):877-886.

2019

  1. Kim K-H, Kane GC, Luong C, and Oh JK. Echocardiographic Diastolic Stress Testing: What Does It Add? Current Cardiology Reports. 2019;21.
  2. Behnami D*, Luong C*, Vaseli H, Girgis H, Abdi A, Hawley D, Gin K, Rohling R, Abolmaesumi P and Tsang T. Automatic cine-based detection of patients at high risk of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in echocardiograms. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization. 2019:1-7.
  3. Vaseli H, Liao Z, Abdi AH, Girgis H, Behnami D, Luong C, Dezaki FT, Dhungel N, Rohling R, Gin K, Abolmaesumi P. Designing lightweight deep learning models for echocardiography view classification. In Medical Imaging 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 2019 (Vol. 10951, p. 109510F). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
  4. Behnami D, Liao Z., Girgis H, Luong C, Rohling R, Gin K, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. Dual-View Joint Estimation of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction with Uncertainty Modelling in Echocardiograms. In: Shen D. et al. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019. MICCAI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11765. Springer, Cham
  5. Luong C, Ong K, Kaila K, Pellikka P, Gin K, Tsang T. Focused Cardiac Ultrasonography: Current Applications and Future Directions. J Ultrasound Med. 2019. 38(4):865-876. doi:10.1002/jum.14773.

2018

  1. Dezaki F*, Liao Z*, Luong C*, Girgis H*, Dhungel N, Abdi AH, Behnami D, Gin K, Rohling R, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Cardiac Phase Detection in Echocardiograms with Densely Gated Recurrent Neural Networks and Global Extrema Loss. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2018. doi:10.1109/TMI.2018.2888807.
  2. Behnami D*, Luong C*, Vaseli H, Abdi A, Girgis H, Hawley D, Rohling R, Gin K, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Automatic Detection of Patients with a High Risk of Systolic Cardiac Failure in Echocardiography. In: Stoyanov D. et al. (eds) Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis and Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support. DLMIA 2018, ML-CDS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11045. Springer, Cham
  3. Yeung D, Sirrs S, Tsang M, Gin K, Luong C, Jue J, Nair P, Lee PK, Tsang T. Echocardiographic Assessment of Patients with Fabry Disease. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2018;31:639-649.e2.
  4. Jafari M, Girgis H, Liao Z, Behnami D, Abdi A, Vaseli H, Luong C, Rohling R, Gin K, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. A Unified Framework Integrating Recurrent Fully-Convolutional Networks and Optical Flow for Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Echocardiography Data. In: Stoyanov D. et al. (eds) Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis and Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support. DLMIA 2018, ML-CDS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11045. Springer, Cham
  5. Van Woudenberg N, Liao Z, Abdi A, Girgis H, Luong C, Vaseli H, Behnami D, Zhang H, Gin K, Rohling R, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. Quantitative Echocardiography: Real-Time Quality Estimation and View Classification Implemented on a Mobile Android Device. In: Stoyanov D. et al. (eds) Simulation, Image Processing, and Ultrasound Systems for Assisted Diagnosis and Navigation. POCUS 2018, BIVPCS 2018, CuRIOUS 2018, CPM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11042. Springer, Cham
  6. Choi H, Luong C, Fung A, Tsang T. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Coronary Ectasia: A Case Report. Diseases 2018; 6(4). pii: E104. doi:10.3390/diseases6040104.

2017

  1. Abdi A*, Luong C*, Tsang T, Jue J, Gin K, Yeung D, Hawley D, Rohling R, Abolmaesumi P. Quality Assessment of Echocardiographic Cine Using Recurrent Neural Networks: Feasibility on Five Standard View Planes. Proceedings of MICCAI. 2017.
  2. Abdi A*, Luong C*, Tsang T, Alan G, Nouranian S, Jue J, Hawley D, Fleming S, Gin K, Swift J, Rohling R, Abolmaesumi P. Automatic Quality Assessment of Echocardiograms Using Convolutional Neural Networks: Feasibility on the Apical Four-chamber View. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. April 2017; 36(6). doi:10.1109/TMI.2017.2690836.
  3. Abdi A, Luong C, Tsang T, Alan G, Nouranian S, Jue J, Hawley D, Fleming S, Gin K, Swift J, Rohling R, Abolmaesumi P. Automatic quality assessment of apical four-chamber echocardiograms using deep convolutional neural networks. Proc. SPIE. Medical Imaging. 2017; 10133S. doi:10.1117/12.2254585.
  4. Luong C, Starovoytov A, Heydari M, Sedlak T, Aymong E, Saw J. Clinical Presentation of Patients with Spontaneous/ Coronary Artery Dissection. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2017; 1;89(7):1149-1154. doi:10.1002/ccd.26977.

2016

  1. Luong C, Thompson D, Gin K, Jue J, Nair P, Lee P, Tsang M, Barnes M, Colley P, Tsang T. Usefulness of the Atrial Emptying Fraction to Predict Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm After Direct Current Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation. Am J Cardiol. 2016; 118 (9): 1345-1349.

2015

  1. Luong C, Thompson D, Bennett M, Gin K, Jue J, Barnes M, Colley P, Tsang T. Right Atrial Volume Is Superior to Left Atrial Volume for Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence Post DC Cardioversion. Can J Cardiol. 2015 Jan;31(1):29-35.

2014

  1. Luong C, Barnes ME, Tsang TS. Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Cause or Effect? Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2014 Dec;11(4):463-70. doi:10.1007/s11897-014-0229-1.
  2. Luong C, Mahal H, Murphy D, Wood D. Matched Perfusion Defects and Abnormal Delayed Enhancement at Cardiac MR Imaging in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss Syndrome). Rheumatology: Current Research. 2014; 4:3.

2011

  1. Luong C*, Rey-Perra J*, Gilmor G, Sauve Y, Koonen D, Walker D, Todd K, Gressens P, Morgan B, Eaton F, Dyck J, Archer S, Thebaud B. Antenatal Sildenafil Treatment Attenuates Pulmonary Hypertension in Experimental Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. Circulation. 2011; 123:2120-2131.

* denotes co-first authorship.