Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Gu A*, Jafari M*, Luong C*, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. Echocardiogram View Conversion Using Clinically Constrained Conditional GAN. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
  4. Jafar M*, Van Woudenberg N*, Luong C*, Abolmaesumi P, TsangT. Deep Bayesian Image Segmentation for a More Robust Ejection Fraction Estimation. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Practice of Echocardiography During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Guidance from the Canadian Society of Echocardiography. Canadian Society of Echocardiography. 2020;http://csecho.ca/2020/03/30/practice-of-echocardiography-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-guidance-from-the-canadian-society-of-echocardiography. (CSE Board Member contributor on this position statement)
  8. Recommendations for resumption of echocardiographic services during COVID-19 – A CSE position paper. Canadian Society of Echocardiography. 2020;http://csecho.ca/2020/08/24/recommendations-for-resumption-of-echocardiographic-services-during-covid-19/. (CSE Board Member contributor on this position statement)
  9. 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.10.068.
  10. Kim K-H, Kane GC, Luong C, and Oh JK. Echocardiographic Diastolic Stress Testing: What Does It Add? Current Cardiology Reports. 2019;21.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Behnami D, Liao Z., Girgis H, Luong C, Rohling R, Gin K, Tsang T, Abolmaesumi P. (2019) 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
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. Choi H, Luong C, Fung A, Tsang T. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Coronary Ectasia: A Case Report. Diseases 2018;6.
  24. Luong C, Abdi A, 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.
  25. Luong C, Abdi A, 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. DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2017.2690836.
  26. 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. DOI:10.1117/12.2254585.
  27. 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 Feb 28. DOI: 10.1002/ccd.26977.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.

Selected Abstracts

  1. Luong C, Padang R, Oh J, Pellikka P, McCully R, Kane G. Assessment of left ventricular filling pressure with exercise is independently associated with all-cause mortality in a cohort of 14,446 patients (2019). American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions, to be presented in Portland, Oregon June 23, 2019.
  2. Luong C, Abdi A, Jue J, Gin K, Fleming S, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T. Automatic Quality Assessment of Echo Apical 4-Chamber Images (2016). American Heart Association Scientific Sessions November 13, 2016. New Orleans, Louisiana. Circulation.
  3. Luong C, Starovoytov A, Heydari A, Aymong E, Saw J. Presenting Symptoms of Patients with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (2016). Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions Annual Meeting, May 4, 2016.
  4. Luong C, Thompson D, Gin K, Jue J, Nair P, Lee PK, Tsang M, Barnes M, Colley P, Tsang T. Atrial Emptying Fraction Predicts Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm Post Direct Current Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation (2016). American College of Cardiology Meeting, Annual Scientific Session, Chicago, IL on April 2, 2016.
  5. Luong C, Thompson D, Gin K, Jue J, Nair P, Lee PK, Tsang M, Barnes M, Colley P, Tsang T. Atrial Emptying Fraction Predicts Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm Post Direct Current Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation (2015). Canadian Cardiovascular Congress Annual Scientific Session. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2015; 31, (10_S205).
  6. Luong C, Tsang M, Gin K, Jue J, Nair P, Lee P, Tsang T. Natural History of Tricuspid Annulus and Right Atrial Remodeling in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation. American Heart Association Scientific Sessions November 2013, Dallas, Texas. Circulation. 2013;104:A19141.
  7. Luong C, Tsang M, Jue J, Gin K, Nair P, Lee P, Barnes M, Gao M, Tsang T. Rate and Magnitude of Atrial Remodeling in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation. American Heart Association Scientific Sessions November 2012, Los Angeles, California. Circulation. 2012;126:A19544.