Left Ventricle Wall Thickness

Purpose

Automate standard LV wall thickness measurements

Tag(s)

#LV Functional Assessment

Panel

Cardiac

Define-AI ID

18040013

Originator

Carlo De Cecco

Panel Chair

Carlo De Cecco

Panel Reviewers

Cardiac Panel

License

Creative Commons 4.0

Status Published

Clinical Implementation


Value Proposition

The measurement of left ventricular (LV) function is a well-established clinical parameter that has fundamental diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic implications. Cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) allow accurate LV morphological and functional assessment. Automated LV function quantification would save the interpreting physician time by eliminating manual measurements, preventing detection errors, and providing structured quantitative data, which could then be used in later studies or risk-stratification schemes.

Narrative(s)

All patients undergoing CCTA or CMR examinations should have automated quantification of LV function if data are available, which may then be automatically populated into the radiology report or a report supplement.

Workflow Description

A patient receives ECG-synchronized CCTA of the heart. An algorithm retrieves the imaging data set and may ingest additional electronic medical records (EMR) data such as age, sex, and body surface area (BSA). The algorithm calculates the local values for myocardial wall thickness during end-diastole and myocardial wall thickness during end-systole. The algorithm returns all measurements to the radiologist.

Considerations for Dataset Development


Procedures(s): ECG-synchronized cardiac CT

 

View(s): CCTA: volumetric imaging data set

 

Heart Anomalies: {Congenital heart disease, ventricular septal defects, congenital heart disease repair, mitral valve replacements}

 

Age: [0,90]

 

Body Surface Area: varied

 

Contrast Material: {Contrast-enhanced (CCTA), noncontrast enhanced applications}

Technical Specifications


Inputs

DICOM Study

Procedure

ECG-synchronized cardiac CT

Views

CCTA: volumetric imaging data set

Data Type

DICOM

Modality

CT

Body Region

Chest

Anatomic Focus

Heart

 

Primary Outputs

End Diastolic Myocardial Wall Thickness

RadElement ID

RDE223

Definition

Measure LV end-diastolic myocardial wall thickness (mm)

Data Type

Numeric

Value Set

[0,20]

Units

mm

 

End Systolic Myocardial Wall Thickness

RadElement ID

RDE224

Definition

Measure LV end-systolic myocardial wall thickness (mm)

Data Type

Numeric

Value Set

[0,25]

Units

mm