Patent ID: 8092388

Claim:
In a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for classification of a view from echocardiographic data, the storage medium comprising instructions for: classifying, with a first machine learnt multi-class local structure classifier, each of a plurality of echocardiographic data sets associated with different search positions of a window on an image as a cardiac standard view; selecting, for each of the echocardiographic data sets, a first machine learnt local structure detector as a function of the classified cardiac standard view, different first local structure detectors being available for each of the cardiac standard views; detecting, with the selected first local structure detector and for each echocardiographic data set, whether the echocardiographic data sets include local structure; ceasing processing of each of the echocardiographic data sets where the local structure is not detected; and for each of the echocardiographic data sets where the local structure is detected, repeating the classifying, selecting and detecting with a second machine learnt multi-class local structure classifier and second machine learnt local structure detectors, different second local structure detectors being available for each of the cardiac standard views, the second machine learnt multi-class local structure classifier being more discriminative than the first machine learnt multi-class local structure classifier, and the second machine learnt local structure detectors being different than the respective first machine learnt local structure detectors.