Doppler cardiac echographies : Diagnosis of dysfunctional strains

 

Collaboration : Methodist Hospital Research Institute / Sherif Nagueh MD
Center for Mathematical Biosciences / Robert Azencott , Yi Peng Li
Data : Non-invasive Doppler echographies of beating heart
Goal : Automatic shape analysis of myocardium strain evolution curves
Challenge : High biological variability of strain evolution curves
Mathematics : Automatic Learning to detect dysfunctional strain evolutions

 

 

Cardiac echography :
Doppler ultrasound image with selected focus area

 

 

Doppler ultrasound :
Evolution of Myocardium Strain intensity and Strain rate