New-Tech Magazine Europe | Dec 2015 Digital edition

DiACardio Ultrasound of the Heart

Shirley Mayzlish, New-Tech Europe Magazine

iACardio, a Software company, revolutionizes the practice of evaluating “Ultrasound of the heart” (“Echocardiography”). Ultrasound devices are being used increasingly in many types of Point-of-Care locations, including cardiology departments, emergency rooms, rural medical facilities, and even ambulances. In the near future, even GPs will begin using ultrasound devices. The medical staffs at these Points of Care locations find it difficult to evaluate the images on the screen. Coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common cardiac disease, is caused by atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries, a condition which causes a decrease in the blood supply to the heart muscle. CAD may cause an impairment of the cardiac muscle function that significantly affects the left ventricular systolic function that performs as the main pump of the heart. Accurate evaluation of D

techniques require the evaluator to draw on vast echo experience in order to achieve an accurate evaluation. Manual tracing is both insufficiently accurate and time consuming (taking 15-30 minutes to perform). Even the semi-automatic measurements now provided on high-end machines have not proven to be sufficiently reliable. Using the tools currently available are limited in function evaluation. Some of the other parameters such as movements of ventricular wall segments (17 singular areas), can only be perform on most machines through “eyeball”-based evaluation. In contrast, DiACardio’s technology enables a fully automatic dynamic analysis of the heart in action, including full automation of both tracing and analysis processes - performed in several second via a single click of the mouse - across the complete heart cycle. This is a revolutionary improvement compared

the left Ventricle (LV) function and other parts of the heart is crucial for correct patient diagnosis, treatment decisions and prognosis assessment. Ultrasound imaging of the heart, or Echocardiography, is the most widely used imaging technique for evaluation of cardiac heart function. Today, approximately 15 million echo procedures are carried out worldwide each year. Over the past few years, echocardiography systems have begun to offer better and faster imaging capabilities, coupled with measurement tools intended to assist with evaluation of heart function. However, these tools are manual or semi-automated, and are therefore slow, cumbersome to use and error- prone. For example, the evaluation of LV function is done by subjective “eyeballing” (just by looking) of the LV, or by manually tracing the LV borders on manually-selected frames. Both

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