Do you realize that there are thousands of scientific publications in medical image processing that address exactly the same concrete problem that you have?
Yes, however much of that research is for formal ultrasound obtained by a professional sonographer with an expensive machine. I'm interested in bedside ultrasound performed by an emergency physician with a mediocre machine (eg butterfly).
It seems the primary way to detect regional wall motion abnormalities is with speckle tracking, which requires way too much post-processing for a clinician.
A system that segments the left ventricle and finds akinetic regions in realtime from a parasternal long axis view or an apical four chamber view would be pretty nifty.
If you know of a paper or system that does this now then please let me know. I would love for someone else to have solved this, haha.
I love this comment deeply, because it is a view into someone else's world, someone who is chipping away at real problems and making "the future" happen. A future where more people are saved from death through incredible-yet-easy-to-use technology.
