Patent ID: 8715183

Claim:
A method for automated measuring of interventricular septum thickness, the method comprising: acquiring a series of ultrasound images of a heart; acquiring a septum mask by applying a septum segmentation algorithm on the series of ultrasound images; localizing a mitral valve tip using a valve tip localization algorithm, wherein the valve tip localization algorithm comprises; computing a motion map of a current frame of a sequence of the ultrasound images; identifying a set of candidate pixels comprising the motion map, the set of candidate pixels comprising a predetermined number of candidate pixels, wherein each of the candidate pixels corresponds to a location of high motion in the current frame; computing a location of a median for the set candidate pixels, the location of the median representing the mitral valve tip; and calculating the thickness of the interventricular septum using an interventricular septum thickness algorithm that uses the septum mask and the localized mitral valve tip as inputs.