Patent Document ID: 8331638
Application ID: 12565896
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for displaying medical image data, comprising: receiving medical image data including a myocardium; automatically segmenting an endocardial contour from the received medical image data; determining a center of mass of the automatically segmented endocardial contour; defining a plurality of equiangular projections that are equiangular with respect to each other, begin from the center of mass, project outwardly from the center of mass, cross the endocardial contour, and end at a point beyond the endocardial contour; defining a plurality of normal projections that correspond to the plurality of equiangular projections, wherein each normal projection begins from the end point of a corresponding equiangular projection and extends for a predetermined length, and each normal projection is defined as the closest possible line to the corresponding equiangular projection that crosses the endocardial contour at a right angle; and displaying dynamics of the myocardium along each normal projection as a function of time, wherein each of the above steps are performed by one or more image processing devices.