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AI-CHD: an AI-based framework for cost-effective surgical telementoring of congenital heart disease

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3D heart modeling and AI bring new cardiac surgery to remote and less-developed regions.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 12
December 2021
101 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3502158
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