An automated algorithm for analysis of 2-D echocardiographic short-axis images: a brief overview

The purpose of this report is to present a brief overview of a computer-based method designed to automatically approximate the epicardial and endocardial borders of the heart for echocardiographic images acquired from the parasternal transthoracic short-axis view. The only user input required is the end diastolic (ED) and end systolic (ES) frame numbers. The method was tested off-line on a developmental database acquired retrospectively from 55 patient studies (2 cycles/patient). The measurements provided by the computer-based method were comparable to those made by 3 expert observers