Multi-ethnic evaluation of fully automatic planning assist system for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

Background We have been developing an automatic planning assist system for coach adjustment, local shimming scan plan, axial multi slice scan plan for slice-alignment, and whole-heart MR imaging plan (motion probes and an axial slab of main scan) [1,2]. However, the previous reposts of the system evaluated only Japanese patient’s and healthy volunteer’s datasets. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy for multi-ethnic datasets based on the inter-observer error in manual annotation.