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For characterizing a heart condition

  • US 4,637,400 A
  • Filed: 08/13/1985
  • Issued: 01/20/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of characterizing the condition of a heart which method includes the steps of,medically imaging said heart to obtain the outline of the end diastole image as a first curve and the end systole outline image as a second curve,determining the normalized curvature of a sequence of points along each of said curves over a predetermined pathlength as a function of the normalized distance of a respective point along said pathlength,determining for each of said points the functional relationship of said normalized curvature to the normalized distance of the associated point along said pathlength to obtain first normalized curvature values of said first curve and second normalized curvature values of said second curve,and differentially combining said first normalized curvature values and said second normalized curvature values at corresponding values of position along said pathlengths to provide a difference functional relationship representative of the difference in shape between said first and second curves,said curves each defining a closed loop and each pathlength corresonding to a segment of a respective closed loop beginning and ending at predetermined reference points on said closed loops.

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