Customizing the Bull's-Eye to Improve the Clinician's Diagnostic Intuition

The standard "bull's-eye" plot is a synthetic planar
representation of left ventricular (LV) myocardium
pathologies, as studied in all imaging modalities. The
graphical display of a three-dimensional solid on a twodimensional
plane implies distorted or partial
representation of the LV, affecting evaluation of the extent
of a variety of pathological processes. This study, after
having estimated the entity of the divergence of visual
assessment of myocardial infarct extension from reality,
proposes to upgrade the bull's eye plot in order to provide
a more likely information, so to improve the clinician's
perception of the heart. The presented alternatives keep the
accepted 17 segments architecture, eventually tailored on
real LV of each patient.