A system and method for automatic quantitative assessment of myocardial image
quality
includes a liver-heart artifact quantification unit for providing a sequence of
images, detecting the heart position in each image, segmenting non-heart activity
relative to the detected heart positions, measuring the liver-heart effect in each
image based on the segmentations, fusing the measurements obtained in each image,
and determining a quality number for the plurality of images responsive to the
fused measurements; and also includes a heart detection unit for receiving the
image sequence, generating a region of interest comprising the heart by 1-D pseudo-motion
analysis of the image sequence, localizing the heart center by a training-based
algorithm, fitting a curve to the localized heart centers of each image in the
sequence, refining the heart center positions of localized heart centers falling
outside of a tolerance distance from the fitted curve, and determining a bounding
circle comprising the heart in accordance with the localized and refined heart
center positions.
