About the Authors

François Destrempes

Affiliation Laboratory of Biorheology and Medical Ultrasonics, University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM), Montreal, Québec, Canada

Marie-Hélène Roy Cardinal

Affiliation Laboratory of Biorheology and Medical Ultrasonics, University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM), Montreal, Québec, Canada

Yoshifumi Saijo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Gérard Finet

Affiliation Department of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Claude-Bernard University Lyon 1, INSERM Unit 886, Lyon, France

Jean-Claude Tardif

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Guy Cloutier

guy.cloutier@umontreal.ca

Affiliations Laboratory of Biorheology and Medical Ultrasonics, University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM), Montreal, Québec, Canada, Department of Radiology, Radio-Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

F. Destrempes, M.-H. Roy Cardinal, G. Cloutier and the University of Montreal Hospital have licensed the segmentation technology and software to Acist Medical Systems. Other authors have no disclosure to report. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FD MHRC GC. Data curation: FD MHRC. Formal analysis: FD MHRC. Funding acquisition: GC. Investigation: YS GF JCT. Methodology: FD MHRC GC. Project administration: GC. Resources: GC. Software: FD MHRC. Supervision: GC. Validation: FD MHRC YS GF JCT. Visualization: FD MHRC. Writing – original draft: FD MHRC GC. Writing – review & editing: FD MHRC YS GF JCT GC.