Title
Computer-aided recognition of a four-chamber image plane in three-dimensional echocardiographic images of children
Abstract
Automated detection of the clinically relevant image planes in a three-dimensional echocardiographic (3-DE) data set has potential applications for diagnosis of pediatric congenital heart disease. We propose a method based on template matching to automatically detect the four-chamber image plane (4CIP) in a 3-DE data set. First, a normal four-chamber image is chosen as the template. Second, to find the 4CIP in a 3-D volume, a series of cross sections are extracted from this volume. Then, a coarse-to-fine retrieval is applied to the stack of slices and the image most similar to the template is proposed as the 4CIP of this volume. We tested the method on 28 data sets of normal children and 22 data sets of children suffering from congenital heart disease, and the error rates are 7 and 9%, respectively. As will be shown, the autodetection algorithm can be straightforwardly implemented, has low computational complexity, and is robust to noise. 2008 SPIE and IS&T. [DOI: 10.1117/1.2956009]
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1117/1.2956009
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
image retrieval,medical diagnostics,databases,heart,three dimensional
Template matching,Computer vision,Data set,Pattern recognition,Computer-aided,Computer science,Image matching,Image plane,Image retrieval,Artificial intelligence,Computing systems,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
3
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoping Liu100.34
Xin Yang215318.24
Lanping Wu300.34
Kun Sun4426.57
Yanfeng Shang5794.67
Rudi Deklerck613112.63