Automated three-dimensional quantification of myocardial perfusion and brain SPECT

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-164

  Slomka, P J ^a   Radau, P ^a   Hurwitz, G A ^a   Dey, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Automated analysis; Computer aided diagnosis; Image quantification; Image registration; Myocardial perfusion; Nuclear medicine; SPECT

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASES; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035284427     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(00)00044-6     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Automated alignment of thallium-201 myocardial tomographic views
2. An automatic approach to the analysis, quantitation and review of perfusion and function from myocardial perfusion SPECT images
3. Technical aspects of myocardial SPECT imaging with technetium-99m sestamibi
4. Comparing functional (PET) images: The assessment of significant change
5. Automated alignment and sizing of myocardial stress and rest scans to three-dimensional normal templates using an image registration algorithm
6. The principal axes transformation-a method for image registration
7. Three-dimensional demarcation of perfusion zones corresponding to specific coronary arteries: Application for automated interpretation of myocardial SPECT
8. Three-dimensional visualization of cardiac single photon emission computed tomography studies. Visualization in biomedical computing
9. The VEX-test for myocardial scintigraphy with T1-201 and sestamibi: Effect on abdominal background activity
10. Clinical tool for automated quantification of myocardial SPECT
11. Automated segmentation and registration technique for HMPAO-SPECT imaging of Alzheimer's disease
12. Single and multimodal subvoxel registration of dissimilar medical images using robust similarity measures
13. A normalized entropy measure for multi-modality image alignment
14. Optimization of the automated quantification of iodine-123-IBZM uptake in the striatum applied to parkinsonism