Automatic Visualization of Regional Functional Parameters of Left Ventricle from Cardiac Imaging

A computer program product for automatically identifying and localizing anatomical regions of a left ventricle of a heart using a segment model, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

• receiving a volumetric image series of one or more time-points in a heart cycle with associated myocardial boundaries, representing the heart;
• performing a long-axis partitioning on each image of the volumetric image series;
• performing a short-axis partitioning volumetric image series;
• generating a polar map, wherein each image of the volumetric image series is mapped to a location on the polar map, wherein the location is characterized using the long-axis partitioning and the short-axis partitioning;
• and
• generating a mapping from the polar map to a voxel in an associated image of the volumetric image series representing an anatomical location.