Method and system for categorizing heart disease states

A system for categorizing human heart disease states, the system comprising:

• a system memory;
• a computer processor coupled to the system memory;
• a receiving unit coupled to the computer processor, the receiving unit to receive a series of cardiac images of a heart, the cardiac images including images of a myocardium and interior fibrous muscles of the heart;
• a first segmenting unit to segment the cardiac images into a myocardium segmentation showing an anatomical shape and a motion of the myocardium;
• a first converting unit to convert the myocardium segmentation to a regional characterization of the anatomical shape and motion of the myocardium;
• a second segmenting unit to segment the cardiac images into an interior fibrous muscles segmentation showing an anatomical shape and a motion of the interior fibrous muscles;
• a second converting unit to convert the interior fibrous muscles segmentation to a regional characterization of the anatomical shape and motion of the interior fibrous muscles;
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• a classifying unit to classify one or more heart conditions based on the regional characterizations of the anatomical shape and the motion of the myocardium and the interior fibrous muscles.

A computer program product for categorizing human heart disease states, the computer program product comprising;

• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to:
• receive a series of cardiac images of a heart, the cardiac images including images of a myocardium and interior fibrous muscles of the heart;
• segment the cardiac images into a myocardium segmentation showing an anatomical shape and a motion of the myocardium;
• convert the myocardium segmentation to a regional characterization of the anatomical shape and motion of the myocardium;
• segment the cardiac images into an interior fibrous muscles segmentation showing an anatomical shape and a motion of the interior fibrous muscles;
• convert the interior fibrous muscles segmentation to a regional characterization of the anatomical shape and motion of the interior fibrous muscles;
• and
• classify one or more heart conditions based on the regional characterizations of the anatomical shape and the motion of the myocardium and the interior fibrous muscles.