An intelligent classifier for prognosis of cardiac resynchronization therapy based on speckle-tracking echocardiograms

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 181-188

  Chao, Pei Kuang ^a   Wang, Chun Li ^b,c   Chan, Hsiao Lung ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Echocardiograms; Phase space reconstruction; Speckle tracking radial strain; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAMS; INTELLIGENT CLASSIFIERS; OPTIMAL SETS; PHASE SPACE RECONSTRUCTION; QUADRATIC KERNELS; RADIAL STRAINS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENTIAL FORWARD SELECTION; SPECKLE TRACKING; SUB-SAMPLING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM);

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPECKLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KERNEL METHOD; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84858335607     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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