EVALECHOCARD: A database in echocardiography for the comparison of methods dedicated to the estimation of regional wall motion abnormalities

Author

Frouin, F. ; Kachenoura, N. ; Delouche, A. ; Dumée, P. ; Kalikian, T. ; Guillemet, H. ; Sarry, L. ; Nardi, O. ; Diebold, B.

Author_Institution

INSERM, Paris

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

517

Lastpage

520

Abstract

An image database of echocardiograms, EVALECHOCARD, dedicated to regional wall motion scoring is presented. It is devoted to become a public reference database, in order to develop an objective comparison on the same data of different computer vision packages aiming at scoring the regional wall motion. The database construction is described, including the data acquisition, the experts´ annotation and the database constitution. Results on the composition of the database are presented. The choice of data acquired on in-hospital patients, suspected of various cardiac diseases, has provided a high rate of pathological segments (39%). Moreover, difficult cases, such as low echogenic patients, were not discarded from the database. Therefore, this information which is available for each segment can be used pertinently to measure the performances of the different algorithms.

Keywords

biomechanics; computer vision; echocardiography; medical administrative data processing; visual databases; EVALECHOCARD; cardiac diseases; computer vision; data acquisition; database constitution; echocardiogram image database; echocardiography database; public reference database; regional wall motion abnormality estimation; Cardiac disease; Computer vision; Constitution; Data acquisition; Echocardiography; Image databases; Motion estimation; Packaging; Pathology; Performance evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2006

Conference_Location

Valencia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2532-7

Type

conf

Filename

4511902