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TRUVACE RECORD VERSION
record: TRV-2026-0759
version: 1
kind: certified
reason: Certified into the record
timestamp: 2026-08-14T06:23:06.943695Z
status: published
lens: g_space
sector: health
headline: CURL-AID: Automated Echocardiographic Motion Analysis for Quantitative Assessment of Posterior Systolic Curling
dek: Objective Posterior systolic curling (PSC) is a morphofunctional abnormality of the posterior mitral annulus associated with malignant ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Current diagnosis is qualitative and operator-dependent, limiting reproducibility, objectivity and standardization. This study introduces CURL-AID (Curling Ultrasound-based Recognition and Labeling-Automated Intelligence-driven Diagnosis), a fully automated echocardiographic framework for PSC detection through quantitative analysi…
gain_title: CURL-AID automated analysis of parasternal long-axis echocardiograms quantified posterior annular hypermobility and classified posterior systolic curling with AUC 0.865 and accuracy 0.82.
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gain_reading: CURL-AID automated analysis of parasternal long-axis echocardiograms quantified posterior annular hypermobility and classified posterior systolic curling with AUC 0.865 and accuracy 0.82.
gain_evidence: CURL-AID provides a quantitative and reproducible assessment of PSC and may support automated identification of a phenotype associated with arrhythmic risk. | Automated segmentation achieved a median Dice of 0.88 and Jaccard index of 0.79 for the posterior wall
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quick_read: On 2026-08-12, a peer-reviewed study described CURL-AID, a fully automated framework that segments the posterior mitral annulus and left ventricular wall on parasternal long-axis echocardiograms, tracks tissue motion, and classifies posterior systolic curling using nine kinematic features in 100 retrospectively analyzed patients.

Posterior systolic curling is linked to arrhythmic risk but currently diagnosed qualitatively, so a reproducible quantitative tool could improve standardization and risk stratification; uncertainty remains because performance was measured only with internal nested cross-validation on a single view and single-center retrospective cohort without prospective or external validation.
limitation: Findings are based on 100 retrospectively collected parasternal long-axis echocardiograms with internal nested cross-validation and no reported external validation or prospective testing.
tag: Evidence-backed gain
key_points: Study analyzed 100 patients (40 PSC, 60 noPSC) classified by three independent clinicians based on dynamic visual assessment. | Pipeline combined convolutional neural network segmentation, point-wise tissue tracking, and nine selected kinematic features reflecting increased tangential and radial displacement. | Best model was linear support vector machine evaluated with repeated, stratified nested cross-validation.
rundown: Researchers developed CURL-AID to replace qualitative operator-dependent visual assessment of posterior systolic curling with automated segmentation of the posterior wall and annulus and point-wise motion tracking from parasternal long-axis views.

From 100 cases, bootstrapped Elastic Net and Sequential Backward Selection identified nine motion descriptors showing increased displacement and irregular systolic acceleration in PSC, yielding median Dice 0.88 for wall segmentation and centroid errors of 2.0 mm validation and 1.6 mm test for annulus localization.
sources:
- peer_reviewed | Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2026.07.018 | 2026-08-12
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