Fully Automated Versus Standard Tracking of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Longitudinal Strain the FAST-EFs Multicenter Study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 66, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1456-1466

  Knackstedt, Christian ^a   Bekkers, Sebastiaan C A M ^a   Schummers, Georg ^b   Schreckenberg, Marcus ^b   Muraru, Denisa ^c   Badano, Luigi P ^c   Franke, Andreas ^d   Bavishi, Chirag ^e   Omar, Alaa Mabrouk Salem ^e   Sengupta, Partho P ^e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TOMTEC IMAGING SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d Internistische Intensivmedizin und Schlafmedizin   (Germany)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

agreement; automated function; echocardiography; observer variation; software

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MACHINE LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84942133943     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.07.052     Document Type: Article

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