Title :
Customizing the bull´s-eye to improve the clinician´s diagnostic intuition
Author :
Ezio-Maria Ferdeghini;Vincenzo Positano;Gianluca Di Bella;Alessandro Pingitore;Daniele Rovai
Author_Institution :
CNR Clinical Physiology Institute, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
The standard “bull´s-eye” plot is a synthetic planar representation of left ventricular (LV) myocardium pathologies, as studied in all imaging modalities. The graphical display of a three-dimensional solid on a two-dimensional plane implies distorted or partial representation of the LV, affecting evaluation of the extent of a variety of pathological processes. This study, after having estimated the entity of the divergence of visual assessment of myocardial infarct extension from reality, proposes to upgrade the bull´s eye plot in order to provide a more likely information, so to improve the clinician´s perception of the heart. The presented alternatives keep the accepted 17 segments architecture, eventually tailored on real LV of each patient.
Keywords :
"Myocardium","Image segmentation","Standards","Imaging","Sociology","Statistics","Volume measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), 2015
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5090-0685-4
Electronic_ISBN :
2325-887X
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.2015.7408655