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Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study

BACKGROUND: Speckle Tracking Echocardiography (STE) strain analysis relies on both spatial and temporal smoothing. The user is often allowed to adjust these smoothing parameters during analysis. This experimental study investigates how different degrees of user controllable spatial and temporal smoo...

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Autores principales: Moen, Christian Arvei, Salminen, Pirjo-Riitta, Dahle, Geir Olav, Hjertaas, Johannes Just, Grong, Ketil, Matre, Knut
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23964663
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-11-32
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author Moen, Christian Arvei
Salminen, Pirjo-Riitta
Dahle, Geir Olav
Hjertaas, Johannes Just
Grong, Ketil
Matre, Knut
author_facet Moen, Christian Arvei
Salminen, Pirjo-Riitta
Dahle, Geir Olav
Hjertaas, Johannes Just
Grong, Ketil
Matre, Knut
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description BACKGROUND: Speckle Tracking Echocardiography (STE) strain analysis relies on both spatial and temporal smoothing. The user is often allowed to adjust these smoothing parameters during analysis. This experimental study investigates how different degrees of user controllable spatial and temporal smoothing affect global and regional STE strain values in recordings obtained from normal and ischemic myocardium. METHODS: In seven anesthetized pigs, left ventricular short- and long-axis B-mode cineloops were recorded before and after left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion. Peak- and postsystolic global STE strain in the radial, circumferential and longitudinal direction as well as corresponding regional strain in the anterior and posterior walls were measured. During post-processing, strain values were obtained with three different degrees of both spatial and temporal smoothing (minimum, factory default and maximum), resulting in nine different combinations. RESULTS: All parameters for global and regional longitudinal strain were unaffected by adjustments of spatial and temporal smoothing in both normal and ischemic myocardium. Radial and circumferential strain depended on smoothing to a variable extent, radial strain being most affected. However, in both directions the different combinations of smoothing did only result in relatively small changes in the strain values. Overall, the maximal strain difference was found in normal myocardium for peak systolic radial strain of the posterior wall where strain was 22.0 ± 2.2% with minimal spatial and maximal temporal smoothing and 30.9 ± 2.6% with maximal spatial and minimal temporal smoothing (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Longitudinal strain was unaffected by different degrees of user controlled smoothing. Radial and circumferential strain depended on the degree of smoothing. However, in most cases these changes were small and would not lead to altered conclusions in a clinical setting. Furthermore, smoothing did not affect strain variance. For all strain parameters, variance remained within the corresponding interobserver variance.
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spelling pubmed-37652222013-09-07 Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study Moen, Christian Arvei Salminen, Pirjo-Riitta Dahle, Geir Olav Hjertaas, Johannes Just Grong, Ketil Matre, Knut Cardiovasc Ultrasound Research BACKGROUND: Speckle Tracking Echocardiography (STE) strain analysis relies on both spatial and temporal smoothing. The user is often allowed to adjust these smoothing parameters during analysis. This experimental study investigates how different degrees of user controllable spatial and temporal smoothing affect global and regional STE strain values in recordings obtained from normal and ischemic myocardium. METHODS: In seven anesthetized pigs, left ventricular short- and long-axis B-mode cineloops were recorded before and after left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion. Peak- and postsystolic global STE strain in the radial, circumferential and longitudinal direction as well as corresponding regional strain in the anterior and posterior walls were measured. During post-processing, strain values were obtained with three different degrees of both spatial and temporal smoothing (minimum, factory default and maximum), resulting in nine different combinations. RESULTS: All parameters for global and regional longitudinal strain were unaffected by adjustments of spatial and temporal smoothing in both normal and ischemic myocardium. Radial and circumferential strain depended on smoothing to a variable extent, radial strain being most affected. However, in both directions the different combinations of smoothing did only result in relatively small changes in the strain values. Overall, the maximal strain difference was found in normal myocardium for peak systolic radial strain of the posterior wall where strain was 22.0 ± 2.2% with minimal spatial and maximal temporal smoothing and 30.9 ± 2.6% with maximal spatial and minimal temporal smoothing (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Longitudinal strain was unaffected by different degrees of user controlled smoothing. Radial and circumferential strain depended on the degree of smoothing. However, in most cases these changes were small and would not lead to altered conclusions in a clinical setting. Furthermore, smoothing did not affect strain variance. For all strain parameters, variance remained within the corresponding interobserver variance. BioMed Central 2013-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3765222/ /pubmed/23964663 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-11-32 Text en Copyright © 2013 Moen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Moen, Christian Arvei
Salminen, Pirjo-Riitta
Dahle, Geir Olav
Hjertaas, Johannes Just
Grong, Ketil
Matre, Knut
Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study
title Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study
title_full Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study
title_fullStr Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study
title_full_unstemmed Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study
title_short Is strain by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? An experimental porcine study
title_sort is strain by speckle tracking echocardiography dependent on user controlled spatial and temporal smoothing? an experimental porcine study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23964663
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-11-32
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