Yes, however much of that research is for formal ultrasound obtained by a professional sonographer with an expensive machine. I'm interested in bedside ultrasound performed by an emergency physician with a mediocre machine (eg butterfly).

It seems the primary way to detect regional wall motion abnormalities is with speckle tracking, which requires way too much post-processing for a clinician.

A system that segments the left ventricle and finds akinetic regions in realtime from a parasternal long axis view or an apical four chamber view would be pretty nifty.

If you know of a paper or system that does this now then please let me know. I would love for someone else to have solved this, haha.

My email is Davidm.Crockett [at] Utah.edu