Customizing the bull´s-eye to improve the clinician´s diagnostic intuition

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.