Factorial phase analysis of ventricular contraction using equilibrium radionuclide angiography images

Abstract Factorial phase analysis (FaPI) represents an alternative method to Fourier phase analysis (FoPI) in the evaluation and detection of abnormalities on cardiac contraction patterns, but it has limitations in representing the sequence in abnormal contraction patterns. In this work we propose a modified factorial phase image (FaPIm) that incorporates more complete information regarding the ventricular contraction sequence. In particular, we analyze and evaluate the contribution of the third eigenimage, in the presence of ventricular dyssynchrony, which has not been sufficiently explored in the literature. We have validated the proposed FaPIm using two Equilibrium Radionuclide Angiography (ERNA) sets of images obtained with a dynamic cardiac phantom and with a numerically simulated phantom. Also, we have tested the proposed representation for a control group of 23 normal subjects and for a sample of 15 patients with Complete Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB). Whereas FoPI allows us to obtain an image that synthesizes ventricular contraction with the smallest dispersion around the mean values, FaPI and FaPIm show that external areas surrounding ventricular cavities present more dephasing than the rest of the ventricular region and contain more detailed information about the progression of contraction. Also, in the presence of an abnormal contraction pattern, the magnitude of the third eigenvalue was greater than the corresponding eigenvalue obtained for normal simulations. The dispersion plots obtained for a normal contraction pattern show that left ventricle (LV) and right ventricle (RV) information overlap. Therefore, when there is a dyssynchrony between LV and RV contraction it becomes necessary to incorporate the information corresponding to the third factor to achieve a clear separation between regions. In the comparison of the indices of control and LBBB populations, FaPIm shows significant differences in five out of six contraction indices, showing its promising value as a clinical tool.

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