Patent ID: 7693315

Claim:
A method for providing automatic diagnostic support for cardiac imaging, comprising: obtaining information from image data of a heart of a patient, wherein obtaining information from image data comprises automatically extracting myocardial wall motion data and myocardial wall thickening data from the image data; obtaining information from clinical data records of the patient; combining one or more features from the obtained information from the image data with one or more features from the obtained clinical data records to obtain a combined set of extracted features; and automatically generating a wall motion score for one or more regions of a myocardial wall using the combined set of extracted features; wherein automatically generating a wall motion score for the one or more regions of the myocardial wall comprises implementing a method for classifying regional myocardial function that is trained to analyze wall motion using the combined set of extracted features, and wherein the method for classifying regional myocardial function comprises a machine learning method.