MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING RIGHT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION

摘要

A medical image processing method of assessing right ventricular function in a subject from medical image data is disclosed. The medical image data comprising a sequence of images of the right ventricular region of the subject during a cardiac cycle for each of a plurality of views, each view of the plurality of views corresponding to a plane defined in relation to features of the right ventricular region. The method comprises: in each view of the plurality of views, tracking reference points in that view and determining the locations of the reference points in each image of the sequence of images corresponding to that view; and calculating a velocity of each reference point using the locations of that reference point in successive images of the sequence of images.