Automatic contour propagation in cine cardiac magnetic resonance images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1472-1482

  Hautvast, Gilion ^a,b   Lobregt, Steven ^b   Breeuwer, Marcel ^b   Gerritsen, Frans ^a,b  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active contours; Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), propagation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATIC CONTOUR PROPAGATION; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HEART; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33750814042     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.882124     Document Type: Article

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