Title :
Contour extraction of Doppler velocity profiles using neural networks
Author :
Gazula, S. ; Hall, A.F. ; Kovács, S.J.
Author_Institution :
Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Washington Univ. Med. Center, St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
A neural network based method of Doppler velocity contour computation using the acoustic form of the echocardiographic Doppler velocity tracing has been developed. The steps involved in extracting the contour are described in detail. The method was applied to the human transmitral diastolic Doppler velocity profile. The neural network generated velocity contour is shown to have excellent agreement with the echocardiography machine generated Doppler velocity tracing
Keywords :
Doppler effect; biomedical ultrasonics; cardiology; haemodynamics; medical signal processing; neural nets; Doppler velocity profiles; blood flow velocity; contour extraction; echocardiography; human transmitral profile; medical US; neural network based method; Biophysics; Cardiology; Data acquisition; Echocardiography; Hospitals; Instruments; Laboratories; Neural networks; Transducers; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Cardiology 1992, Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Durham, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3552-5
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.1992.269533
