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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2010
Navneeth Subramanian, Bangalore, IN;
Anand Magadi Narasimhamurthy, Bangalore, IN;
Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam, Bangalore, IN;
Dirk Ryan Padfield, Albany, NY (US);
Navneeth Subramanian, Bangalore, IN;
Anand Magadi Narasimhamurthy, Bangalore, IN;
Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam, Bangalore, IN;
Dirk Ryan Padfield, Albany, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for automatically measuring interventricular septum thickness is provided. The method in one embodiment comprises acquiring a series of ultrasound images of a heart, acquiring a septum mask by applying a septum segmentation algorithm on the series of ultrasound images, localizing a mitral valve tip using a valve tip localization algorithm and calculating the thickness of the interventricular septum using an interventricular septum thickness algorithm. The interventricular septum thickness algorithm uses the septum mask and the localized mitral valve tip as inputs.