Patent ID: 7327862

Claim:
A method of diagnosing a human heart, comprising: providing to a computer system a plurality of first images of heart tissue from the heart; using the plurality of first images to create at least one second image of human heart tissue using the computer system, comprising: creating endocardial and epicardial left ventricle wall contours; automatically segmenting at least a portion of left ventricle wall endocardial contours of at least two of the provided images of heart tissue into a selected number of endocardial left ventricle wall points; automatically segmenting at least a portion of left ventricle wall epicardial contours of at least two of the provided images of heart tissue into a selected number of epicardial left ventricle wall points; and automatically using endocardial left ventricle wall points and epicardial left ventricle wall points to create a model of at least a portion of the left ventricle wall over one or more periods of time; wherein the second image comprises one or more structural elements; and comparing at least one structural element to one or more heart reference structural elements in a database to assess a state of the heart.