Simultaneous left atrium volume tracking from echocardiographic movies

Author

Yaacobi, M. ; Liel-Cohen, N. ; Guterman, H.

Author_Institution

Dep. of Biomed. Eng., Soroka Univ. Med. Center, Israel

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

403

Lastpage

407

Abstract

Left ventricular (LV) function evaluation is an integral part of every echocardiographic examination of the heart. Left atrial (LA) evaluation provides valuable clinical information that can contribute greatly to LV function evaluation. An automatic method for simultaneous tracking of LV and LA volumes through cardiac cycle is presented. The proposed method provides an extended framework for LV function analysis.

Keywords

biomechanics; cardiovascular system; diseases; echocardiography; image motion analysis; medical image processing; LA volume tracking; LV volume tracking; automatic tracking method; cardiac cycle; cardiac disease; cardiac muscle contraction; cardiac muscle relaxation; clinical information; echocardiographic movies; heart examination; left atrial evaluation; left ventricular functional evaluation; wall motion tracking; Active contours; Atrial fibrillation; Biomedical measurements; Blood; Cardiac disease; Clinical diagnosis; Heart; Image motion analysis; Motion pictures; Ultrasonic imaging; Left atrium; Left ventricle; tracking; ultrasound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 2008. IEEEI 2008. IEEE 25th Convention of

Conference_Location

Eilat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2481-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2482-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEI.2008.4736558

Filename

4736558