A software framework for global and regional quantitative assessment of myocardial necrosis by cardiac magnetic resonance

Management of heart failure is challenging for all healthcare systems, due to the need of several expensive imaging examinations and image analysis procedures to address different clinical questions. In particular, a correct identification of transmural extent of irreversible myocardial damage is cost effective, identifying subjects who will most benefit of coronary revascularization. This study show how a dedicated software tool, to be integrated within a clinical decision support system, may help to preserve the information content of medical images in the assessment of myocardial viability in management of the left ventricular dysfunction. Copyright © 2010 The Authors.