Abstract
LV segmentation is often an important part of many automated cardiac diagnosis strategies. However, the segmentation of echocardiograms is a difficult task because of poor image quality. In echocardiography, we note that radio-frequency (RF) signal is a rich source of information about the moving LV as well. In this paper, first, we will investigate currently used, important RF derived parameters: integrated backscatter coefficient(IBS), mean central frequency (MCF) and the maximum correlation coefficients (MCC) from speckle tracking. Second, we will develop a new segmentation algorithm for the segmentation of the LV boundary, which can avoid local minima and leaking through uncompleted boundary. Segmentations are carried out on the RF signal acquired from a Sonos7500 ultrasound system. The results are validated by comparing to manual segmentation results.
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Yan, P., Jia, C.X., Sinusas, A., Thiele, K., O’Donnell, M., Duncan, J.S. (2007). LV Segmentation Through the Analysis of Radio Frequency Ultrasonic Images. In: Karssemeijer, N., Lelieveldt, B. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4584. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73273-0_20
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