A stochastic approach for automatic registration and fusion of left atrial electroanatomic maps with 3D CT anatomical images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6323-6337

  Cristoforetti, Alessandro ^a   Masè, Michela ^a   Faes, Luca ^a   Centonze, Maurizio ^b   Greco, Maurizio Del ^b   Antolini, Renzo ^a   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a   Ravelli, Flavia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b SANTA CHIARA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

3D CT ANATOMICAL IMAGES; ATRIAL ENDOCARDIAL ELECTROANATOMIC MAPS (CARTO MAPS); AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; CARDIAC IMAGES; LEFT ATRIAL ELECTROANATOMIC MAPS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36048949030     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/20/015     Document Type: Article

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