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

Journal: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Echocardiographic determination of ejection fraction (EF) by manual tracing of endocardial borders is time consuming and operator dependent, whereas visual assessment is inherently subjective.

Authors

  • Christian Knackstedt
    Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
  • Sebastiaan C A M Bekkers
    Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
  • Georg Schummers
    TomTec Imaging Systems GmbH, Unterschleissheim, Germany.
  • Marcus Schreckenberg
    TOMTEC Imaging Systems GmbH, Freisinger Str. 9, 85716 Unterschleissheim, Germany.
  • Denisa Muraru
    Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
  • Luigi P Badano
    Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
  • Andreas Franke
    Department of Cardiology, KRH Klinikum Siloah, Hannover, Germany.
  • Chirag Bavishi
    Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Missouri at Columbia and MU School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
  • Alaa Mabrouk Salem Omar
    Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
  • Partho P Sengupta
    Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.