Repeatability and reproducibility of fetal cardiac ventricular volume calculations using spatiotemporal image correlation and virtual organ computer-aided analysis

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1301-1311

  Hamill, Neil ^a,b   Romero, Roberto ^a,b   Hassan, Sonia S ^a,b   Lee, Wesley ^c   Myers, Stephen A ^d   Mittal, Pooja ^a,b   Kusanovic, Juan Pedro ^a,b   Chaiworapongsa, Tinnakorn ^a,b   Vaisbuch, Edi ^a,b   Espinoza, Jimmy ^a,b   Gotsch, Francesca ^a   Carletti, Angela ^e   Gonçalves, Luís F ^a,b   Yeo, Lami ^a,b  

^a HUTZEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d The MetroHealth System   (United States)

^e Case Metrohealth ^*

Author keywords

3 dimensional echocardiography; 4 dimensional ultrasonography; Cardiac function; Contour finder; Fetal echocardiography; Fetus; Inversion mode; Ultrasonography; Ventricular volume

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; OBSTETRICS; RELIABILITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

3-DIMENSIONAL; CARDIAC FUNCTIONS; CONTOUR FINDER; FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; INVERSION MODES; VENTRICULAR VOLUME;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 74749086807     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.10.1301     Document Type: Article

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