Full Left Ventricle Quantification via Deep Multitask Relationships Learning

Accurate quantification of left ventricle (LV) from cardiac imaging is among the most clinically important and most frequently demanded tasks for identification and diagnosis of cardiac diseases  (Karamitsos et al., 2009). To provide a comprehensive global and regional cardiac function assessment, full quantification of cardiac LV is required, which simultaneously quantifies, for every frame in the whole cardiac cycle, multiple types of cardiac indices, such as cavity and myocardium areas , regional wall thicknesses, LV dimension and cardiac phase, as shown in Fig. 1.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - September 26, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Wufeng Xue, Gary Brahm, Sachin Pandey, Stephanie Leung, Shuo Li Source Type: research