A software framework for global and regional quantitative assessment of myocardial necrosis by cardiac magnetic resonance

Author

Positano, Vincenzo ; Marinelli, Martina ; Caiani, Enrico ; Santarelli, Maria Filomena ; Pingitore, Alessandro ; Redaelli, Alberto ; Lombardi, Massimo ; Landini, Luigi ; Parodi, Oberdan

Author_Institution

Fondazione "G. Monasterio" CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

27-29 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Management of heart failure is challenging for all healthcare systems, due to the need of several expensive imaging examinations and image analysis procedures to address different clinical questions. In particular, a correct identification of transmural extent of irreversible myocardial damage is cost effective, identifying subjects who will most benefit of coronary revascularization. This study show how a dedicated software tool, to be integrated within a clinical decision support system, may help to preserve the information content of medical images in the assessment of myocardial viability in management of the left ventricular dysfunction.

Keywords

cardiology; health care; medical image processing; cardiac magnetic resonance; clinical decision support system; coronary revascularization; global quantitative assessment; healthcare system; heart failure; image analysis procedure; imaging examination; left ventricular dysfunction; medical image; myocardial damage; myocardial necrosis; regional quantitative assessment; software framework; software tool; Biomedical imaging; Heart; Image segmentation; Medical services; Myocardium; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

eChallenges, 2010

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8390-7

Type

conf

Filename

5756580