Tracking of myocardial walls and study of contractility and thickening

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The study of cardiac muscle contractility is fundamental in the evaluation of cardiac function. We propose a continuous measure of contractility based on segment thickening in echocardiographic contrast B-mode time series. Thickness is computed with the symmetric nearest neighbour distance method from the inner to the outer myocardial walls. Preliminary results from 2 studies are compared to nominal scoring by an expert and illustrate how this measure can be useful in the detection of hypokinetic segments.

Authors: Casero−Cañas, R; Timperley, J; Noble, J; Becher, H

• Publisher: Imperial College‚ London
• Host title: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2004. Proceedings of the eighth Annual Conference
• Publication date: 2004-09-01