Title
Quality metric for Parasternal Long AXis B-mode echocardiograms.
Abstract
This paper presents a method for automatically estimating the quality of Parasternal Long AXis (PLAX) B-mode echocardiograms. The purpose of the algorithm is to provide live feedback to the user on the quality of the acquired image. The proposed approach uses Generalized Hough Transform to compare the structures derived from the incoming image to a representative atlas, thereby providing a quality metric (PQM). On 133 PLAX images from 35 patients, we show: 1) PQM has high correlation with manual ratings from an expert echocardiographer 2) PQM has high correlation with contrast-to-noise ratio, a traditional indicator of image quality 3) on images with high PQM, error in automatic septal wall thickness measurement is low, and vice versa.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33418-4_59
MICCAI (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
incoming image,image quality,b-mode echocardiograms,parasternal long axis,generalized hough transform,plax image,high correlation,high pqm,quality metric,acquired image
Computer vision,Long axis,Pattern recognition,Live feedback,Computer science,Binary image,Image quality,Hough transform,Artificial intelligence,Parasternal line
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
Pt 2
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
7
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sri-Kaushik Pavani11498.30
Navneeth Subramanian2175.73
Mithun Das Gupta3889.28
Pavan Annangi431.45
Satish C Govind520.74
Brian Young620.40