Regional myocardial wall thickening of the left ventricle from segmentation of echocardiographic images

Isabelle Fitton; J. Shen; Jean-Marie Perron; Akem Kerouani; Raymond Roudaut; J.-L. Barat

doi:10.1117/12.440269

18 September 2001 Regional myocardial wall thickening of the left ventricle from segmentation of echocardiographic images

Isabelle Fitton, J. Shen, Jean-Marie Perron, Akem Kerouani, Raymond Roudaut, J.-L. Barat

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Proceedings Volume 4549, Medical Image Acquisition and Processing; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.440269
Event: Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2001, Wuhan, China

Abstract

This paper describes an original strategy for an automatic quantitative estimation of the regional myocardial wall thickening from segmentation of echocardiographic images. Our method is decomposed in two steps : first, we have developed a user-friendly computer software of segmentation to extract the myocardial wall in each image of the sequence. Secondly, the software automatically computes the regional wall thicknesses evolution for a cardiac sequence. The results are shown on regional diagrams. Furthermore, the percent systolic wall regional thickening is computed. This quantitation ofregional wall thickening by ultrasound imaging should be very helpful for physicians in the assessment ofthe cardiac contraction function

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Isabelle Fitton, J. Shen, Jean-Marie Perron, Akem Kerouani, Raymond Roudaut, and J.-L. Barat "Regional myocardial wall thickening of the left ventricle from segmentation of echocardiographic images", Proc. SPIE 4549, Medical Image Acquisition and Processing, (18 September 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.440269

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