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Clinical Validation of Fully Automated Computation of Ejection Fraction from Gated Equilibrium Blood-Pool Scintigrams

Erasmus University and University Hospital Dijkzigt, Rotterdam
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Dr. Johan H. C. Reiber, Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Image Processing, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University and Hospital Dijkzigt, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

ABSTRACT

A fully automated procedure for the computation of left-ventricular ejection fraction (EF) from cardiac-gated Tc-99m blood-pool (GBP) scintigrams with fixed, dual, and variable ROI methods is described. By comparison with EF data from contrast ventriculography in 68 patients, the dual-ROI method (separate end-diastolic and end-systolic contours) was found to be the method of choice; processing time was 2 min. Success score of dual-ROI procedure was 92 % as assessed from 100 GBP studies. Overall reproducibility of data acquisition and analysis was determined in 12 patients. Mean value and standard deviation of differences between repeat studies (average time interval 27 min) were 0.8 % and 4.3 % EF units, respectively, (r = 0.98). We conclude that left-ventricular EF can be computed automatically from GBP scintigrams with minimal operator-interaction and good reproducibility; EFs are similar to those from contrast ventriculography.

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