Automatic Obtaining of Left Ventricular Area and Analyzing the Area Changes

We proposed a new method for computer based estimation of changes in left ventricular area in series of full short-axis MRI data to obtain the graph of area changes and analyzing the graph. At the first step cardiac region is found in full short-axis cardiac MRI data. Finding the cardiac region in full short-axis images for the next step we could segment left ventricular cavity and then finding the area of left ventricular. Our new method results in a very good determination of left ventricular cavity. Also the graph of area changes of left ventricular in short-axis MRI data leads us to a very good analytic tool for interpretation of heart problems and analyzing the left ventricular states. In addition to preciseness, our new method in all of the processing steps is based on fast calculations and is fully automatic.