SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS AND DECISION SUPPORT FOR HEART RELATED DISEASES AND CONDITIONS

摘要

CAD (computer-aided diagnosis) systems and applications for cardiac imaging are provided, which implement methods to automatically extract and analyze features from a collection of patient information (including image data and/ or non-image data) of a subject patient, to provide decision support for variou s aspects of physician workflow including, for example, automated assessment o f regional myocardial function through wall motion analysis, automated diagnos is of heart diseases and conditions such as cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease and other heart-related medical conditions, and other automated decision support functions. The CAD systems implement machine-learning techniques that use a set of training data obtained (learned) from a databas e of labeled patient cases in one or more relevant clinical domains and/or expert interpretations of such data to enable the CAD systems to "learn" to analyze patient data and make proper diagnostic assessments and decisions fo r assisting physician workflow.