The cardiovascular Imaging team gathers multidisciplinary experts –  researchers, engineers, radiology technologistst, and doctors – to identify imaging-derived predictive signatures of cardiovascular risk. Our fields of expertise combine cardiac and vascular image processing, artificial intelligence, mathematical and hemodynamic modelling as well as in-depth knowledge of cardiovascular physiological and pathological pathways.

We develop cutting-edge algorithms to decode disease-related information enclosed in cardiac and vascular MRI and CT scans, then validate and measure their effectiveness in patients. Building on fundamental research, our work seeks to uncover imaging biomarkers through the assessment of biomechanical and hemodynamic alterations in the cardiovascular system. Among the targeted diseases: aortic diseases, inherited and acquired cardiomyopathies, and the impact on the heart of lupus, diabetes, cancer treatments, …

Our team also coordinates the ICAN Imaging MRI platform, dedicated to human cardiovascular imaging research, and its standardized image analysis corelab, both located within the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. These facilities serve for our collaborative research with the IHU ICAN around the first French population-based cardiac imaging study, ICONIC, in partnership with the Constances Cohort. As part of this study, we perform cardiac and aortic MRI scans on over 2,000 participants and analyse them using tools derived from our research to ultimately establish normative values in the general population.