Quantification of cardiac bull's-eye map based on principal strain analysis for myocardial wall motion assessment in stress echocardiography
Omar HA., Domingos JS., Patra A., Upton R., Leeson P., Noble JA.
In this paper we consider automated myocardial wall motion assessment by quantifying a cardiac bull's eye map derived from principal strain analysis. The objective is to learn a classification model that can classify between normal and abnormal wall motions. A traditional hand-crafted feature approach based on pixel intensities is compared with a deep learning framework, where a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) automatically learns features. Experiments on a 3D Dobutamine Stress Echo (DSE) dataset with normal and abnormal wall motions shows that both hand-crafted approaches yield comparable accuracy: Random Forests (72.1%), Support Vector Machines (70.5%), and CNN at a slightly higher accuracy (75.0%) and a lower training computational cost.