HEART FUNCTION ANALYSIS SUPPORTING DEVICE AND HEART FUNCTION ANALYSIS SUPPORTING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily evaluate the local motion state of a heart wall by dividing a heart wall contour with the feature point of the heart wall contour as a reference from extracted heart wall contour information, making divided contours correspond to each other among time sequentially different respective images and outputting heart wall motion information. ;SOLUTION: The heart wall contour information is inputted from a heart wall contour input part 1 and stored in a memory 6 and a feature point detection part 2 detects the feature points on the contour such as a heart tip part and a valve ring part from the heart wall contour based on the heart wall contour information. A contour division part 3 divides the heart wall contour with feature point positions supplied from the feature point detection part 2 as the reference and obtained division point information is stored in the memory 6. When the heart wall contour is divided, a division point correspondence part 4 makes division points correspond over plural time phase images and a display part 5 classifies the heart wall contour divided in the division point correspondence part 4 for respective areas useful for a diagnosis and displays at least one of numerical display, graph display and the color display of the heart wall.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1998,JPO