Accurate Measurement of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Three-dimensional Echocardiography

Nosir, Youssef F.M.; Fioretti, P.; Vletter, Wim B.; Boersma, Eric; Salustri, Alessandro; Postma, Jeroen; Reijs, Ambroos E.M.; Cate, Folkert J. ten; Roelandt, Jos R.T.C.

doi:10.1161/01.cir.94.3.460

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“…Accurate estimates of left ventricular ejection fraction by 3D echocardiography in adults have been reported [7] . The aim of the present study was to determine the accuracy of 3D echocardiography in measuring the left ventricular ejection fraction in children in comparison with equilibrium radionuclide angiography using a novel transthoracic integrated 3D-probe adapted to small children.…”

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Left ventricular ejection fraction in children measured by three-dimensional echocardiography using a new transthoracic integrated 3D-probe A comparison with equilibrium radionuclide angiography

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Maunoury²,

Antonietti³

et al. 1998

European Heart Journal

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Background Three-dimensional echocardiography allows calculation of left ventricular ejection fraction without geometric assumption on the ventricular shape. Our aim was to validate this technique in a paediatric population with distorted ventricles.Methods Twenty-one patients aged 6 months to 17 years underwent equilibrium radionuclide angiography and three-dimensional echocardiography. Fourteen patients had dilated cardiomyopathy and seven had univentricular hearts. A new, easy to handle, transthoracic rotational probe was used and motion artefacts were limited during the rotation (3 intervals with ECG and respiratory gating). Left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction were calculated using the Simpson's rule with 12 slices.Results Three-dimensional echocardiography correlated well with equilibrium radionuclide angiography for ejection fraction measurement (r=0·90; the mean difference between the two methods being 3·8 6%). Intra-observer and interobserver variabilities for 3D echocardiography were 2·4% and 4·5%.Conclusions Three-dimensional echocardiography is an accurate, non-invasive, and reproducible methods to measure left ventricular ejection fraction in children.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Left ventricular ejection fraction in children measured by three-dimensional echocardiography using a new transthoracic integrated 3D-probe A comparison with equilibrium radionuclide angiography

Acar

Maunoury²,

Antonietti³

et al. 1998

European Heart Journal

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“…Tracking the mitral valve motion is another method for detecting the ED and ES frame, where the ES stage is defined as the last frame before the opening of the mitral valve while the ED stage is the last frame before the closing for the mitral valve, as reported by Nosir et al (1996). In the meanwhile, tracking the mitral valve together with the ventricle volume was presented by Barcaro et al (2008).…”

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Cavity Segmentation and Stroke Volume Measurement Methods From Echocardiographic Images: Review

Abboud¹,

Rahmat²,

Kadiman³

et al. 2014

Journal of Computer Science

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The complexity and criticality of heart disease diagnosis and treatment have frequently attracted the attention of researchers to develop approaches that can handle accurate clinical assessments. One of these complexities is measuring the Right Ventricle stroke volume. Therefore, different cardiac imaging techniques have been developed to help specialists in their regular clinical work and in the operating theatre to assist in the diagnosis, monitoring of the treatment and to ensure the success of a cardiac intervention as far as possible. Echocardiography is one of the cardiac imaging techniques and is considered as the most effective imaging technique as it is minimally invasive, quick and the cheapest method. Many studies have been conducted on Right Ventricle assessment from echocariographic images. This review is aimed at presenting the previous technical elements and algorithms used to measure the ventricle stroke volume from echocardiographic images. The review focuses on the five technical approaches that have been used, which are pre-processing, End-Distally (ED) and End-Systolic (ES) frame detection, cavity segmentation, the stoke volume measurement and 3D reconstruction. Finally, a summary will conclude this study.

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“…Tracking the mitral valve motion is another method for detecting the ED and ES frame (Hussein et al, 2011), where the ES stage is defined as the last frame before the opening of the mitral valve while the ED stage is the last frame before the closing for the mitral valve, as reported by (Nosir et al, 1996). In the meanwhile, tracking the mitral valve together with the ventricle volume was presented by (Umberto et al, 2008).…”

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“…Then, they computed manifold model of seven phases of cardiac cycles to determine ED and ES stages automatically. (Yuanfang et al, 2011) determined ED and ES stages by tracking the mitral valve motion, based on (Nosir et al, 1996)'s definition for the ED and ES stages. This method used 3D echo image of LV, by binaries and enhancing images in the pre-processing stage of their algorithm.…”

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Automatic Detection of the End-Diastolic and End-Systolic from 4D Echocardiographic Images

Abboud¹,

Rahmat²,

Kadiman³

et al. 2015

Journal of Computer Science

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Accurate detection of the End-Diastolic (ED) and EndSystolic (ES) frames of a cardiac cycle are significant factors that may affect the accuracy of abnormality assessment of a ventricle. This process is a routine step of the ventricle assessment procedure as most of the time in clinical reports many parameters are measured in these two frames to help in diagnosing and dissection making. According to the previous works the process of detecting the ED and ES remains a challenge in that the ED and ES frames for the cavity are usually determined manually by review of individual image phases of the cavity and/or tracking the tricuspid valve. The proposed algorithm aims to automatically determine the ED and ES frames from the four Dimensional Echocardiographic images (4DE) of the Right Ventricle (RV) from one cardiac cycle. By computing the area of three slices along one cardiac cycle and selecting the maximum area as the ED frame and the minimum area as the ES frame. This method gives an accurate determination for the ED and ES frames, hence avoid the need for time consuming, expert contributions during the process of computing the cavity stroke volume.

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Accurate Measurement of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Three-dimensional Echocardiography

Cited by 140 publications

References 19 publications

Left ventricular ejection fraction in children measured by three-dimensional echocardiography using a new transthoracic integrated 3D-probe A comparison with equilibrium radionuclide angiography

Left ventricular ejection fraction in children measured by three-dimensional echocardiography using a new transthoracic integrated 3D-probe A comparison with equilibrium radionuclide angiography

Cavity Segmentation and Stroke Volume Measurement Methods From Echocardiographic Images: Review

Automatic Detection of the End-Diastolic and End-Systolic from 4D Echocardiographic Images

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