Is That Heart Enlarged? Best Practices in Identifying Cardiomegaly in Dogs and How Automated Tools Can Help
Accurately identifying cardiomegaly is a critical step in diagnosing and managing dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD). Thoracic radiographs play an important role in cardiac assessment, but evaluating subtle changes in heart size over time is difficult. Measurements such as VHS and VLAS provide valuable objective data — yet results are influenced by patient positioning, image quality, and interobserver variability.
In this free on-demand webinar, we walk through current best practices and challenges in identifying cardiomegaly associated with MMVD, then demonstrate how an automated VHS/VLAS tool improves measurement consistency and streamlines cardiac evaluations.
What you’ll learn
- Current clinical understanding of myxomatous mitral valve disease
- Best practices and challenges in identifying cardiomegaly on diagnostic imaging
- Standard approaches to measuring VHS and VLAS
- Improving measurement consistency with automated VHS/VLAS tools
Presenters
Tony Pease, DVM, DACVR — Co-founder and Chief Radiologist, Travv. Board-certified veterinary radiologist and former president of the American College of Veterinary Radiology.
Derick Whitley, DVM, DACVP — Founder and CEO, Travv. Board-certified veterinary anatomic pathologist with more than fifteen years in veterinary diagnostics.
John Craig, PhD — Director of Machine Learning, Travv. Developer of the VHS/VLAS models, with 25 years building deep learning models for veterinary imaging.
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