Patent ID: 6514207
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A method for processing an echocardiogram video of a patient's heart, the echocardiogram video comprising a first sequence of consecutive video frames corresponding to a first view of the patient's heart concatenated with a second sequence of consecutive video frames corresponding to a second view of the patient's heart, the method comprising:receiving the first sequence of consecutive video frames and the second sequence of consecutive video frames; monitoring a first feature in each one of the video frames of the first and second sequences of consecutive video frames; selecting a video frame in each of the first sequence of consecutive video frames and the second sequence of consecutive video frames corresponding to an occurrence of the first feature in each of the first sequence of consecutive video frames and the second sequence of consecutive video frames; monitoring a second feature in the first sequence of consecutive video frames and the second sequence of consecutive video frames; detecting a transition between the first sequence of consecutive video frames and the second sequence of consecutive video frames by determining a change in the second feature between adjacent video frames; and generating a summary comprising video frames selected in the selecting step.