A QUANTUM CLASSICAL DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR EARLY DETECTION AND TRIAGE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES USING MEDICAL IMAGING
DR SELVANI DEEPTHI KAVILA, P. HEMA VENKATA RAMANA, SELVA MALAR N, CHILAKALAPUDI MALATHI, DR DOKKU DURGA BHAVANI, DORABABU SUDARSA, N. SRIKANTH, MYLAVARAPU KALYAN RAM
Early and accurate recognition of cardiovascular disease (CVD) using medical imaging is essential for timely clinical intervention and management. The objective of this study was to continue developing a hybrid quantum-classical deep learning system for the early detection and automatic triage of cardiovascular diseases using cardiac imaging information. The proposed method consists of a combination of efficient feature extraction via a lightweight classical convolutional neural network and a quantum-illness feature transformation and decision-refinement process implemented as a variational quantum circuit. A clinically informed triage module was added to rate patients into three risk categories (low-, moderate-, and high-risk). Experimental evaluation on a public cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset revealed that the proposed framework achieved 94.5% classification accuracy and an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.96, with sensitivity exceeding that of state-of-the-art classical deep learning models. The results show that quantum-enhanced feature representations provide better class separability, robustness to Imaging noise, and improved learning efficiency. The results suggest that one way to overcome the limitations of conventional deep models is the hybrid quantum-classical learning approach, which is also compatible with near-term quantum hardware. This work raises the question of whether quantum-assisted artificial intelligence can enable scalable, real-time cardiovascular decision support systems and promote next-generation intelligent healthcare systems.
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology•Apr 30, 2026•0 citations