Quantitative myocardial infarction on delayed enhancement MRI. Part I: Animal validation of an automated feature analysis and combined thresholding infarct sizing algorithm

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 298-308

  Hsu, Li Yueh ^a   Natanzon, Alex ^a   Kellman, Peter ^a   Hirsch, Glenn A ^a   Aletras, Anthony H ^a   Arai, Andrew E ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer algorithm; Contrast agent; Expert system; Gadolinium; Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EXPERT SYSTEM; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOGS; GADOLINIUM DTPA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS;

EID: 33644837520     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20496     Document Type: Article

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