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Left Ventricular Wall Motion Estimation by Active Polynomials for Acute Myocardial Infarction Detection

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submitted on 2023-08-24, 07:44 and posted on 2023-09-20, 12:05 authored by Serkan Kiranyaz, Aysen Degerli, Tahir Hamid, Rashid Mazhar, Rayyan El Fadil Ahmed, Rayaan Abouhasera, Morteza Zabihi, Junaid Malik, Ridha Hamila, Moncef Gabbouj

Echocardiogram (echo) is the earliest and the primary tool for identifying regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMA) in order to diagnose myocardial infarction (MI) or commonly known as heart attack. This paper proposes a novel approach, Active Polynomials, which can accurately and robustly estimate the global motion of the Left Ventricular (LV) wall from any echo in a robust and accurate way. The proposed algorithm quantifies the true wall motion occurring in LV wall segments so as to assist cardiologists diagnose early signs of an acute MI. It further enables medical experts to gain an enhanced visualization capability of echo images through color-coded segments along with their “maximum motion displacement” plots helping them to better assess wall motion and LV Ejection-Fraction (LVEF). The outputs of the method can further help echo-technicians to assess and improve the quality of the echocardiogram recording. A major contribution of this study is the first public echo database collection composed by physicians at the Hamad Medical Corporation Hospital in Qatar. The so-called HMC-QU database will serve as the benchmark for the forthcoming relevant studies. The results over HMC-QU dataset show that the proposed approach can achieve 87.94% accuracy, 92.86% sensitivity and 87.64% precision in MI detection even though the echo quality is quite poor and the temporal resolution is low.

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Published in: IEEE Access
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3038743

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Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.

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Language

  • English

Publisher

IEEE

Publication Year

  • 2020

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institution affiliated with

  • Qatar University
  • College of Engineering - QU
  • Hamad Medical Corporation
  • Heart Hospital - HMC