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Volumetric Analysis of the Heart Using Echocardiography

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Abstract

This paper presents a volumetric cardiac analysis and movement reconstruction algorithm from echocardiographic image sequences and electrocardiography (ECG) records. The method consists of two-dimensional (2-D) echocardiogram transformation, shape detection, heart wall movement identification, volumetric analysis and 4-D model construction. Although the semi-periodic behavior of the ECG and the breath caused heart rate variance disturbs spatial and temporal reconstruction, the presented algorithm is able to overcome these problems in most cases for normal and ventricular beats. The obtained model provides a tool to investigate volumetric variance of the heart and the phenomenon of normal and abnormal heart beating that makes possible to explore continuously the heart’s inner structure.

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  • echocardiography
  • sequence analysis
  • QRS clustering
  • volumetric analysis
  • 3-D active appearance model

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  1. Sapientia - Hungarian Science University of Transylvania, Faculty of Technical and Human Science, Târgu-Mureş, Romania

    Sándor M. Szilágyi & László Szilágyi

  2. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Dept. of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest, Hungary

    László Szilágyi & Zoltán Benyó

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    Szilágyi, S.M., Szilágyi, L., Benyó, Z. (2007). Volumetric Analysis of the Heart Using Echocardiography. In: Sachse, F.B., Seemann, G. (eds) Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. FIMH 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4466. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72907-5_9

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