Evaluation of manual and automatic segmentation of the mouse heart from CINE MR images

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-93

  Heijman, Edwin ^a   Aben, Jean Paul ^b   Penners, Cindy ^b   Niessen, Petra ^c   Guillaume, René ^b   Van Eys, Guillaume ^c   Nicolay, Klaas ^a   Strijkers, Gustav J ^a,d  

^a Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (Netherlands)

^b Pie Medical Imaging   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic; CINE MRI; Global functional parameter; Mouse heart; Quantitative analysis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CINERADIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTOLE; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 37849024595     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21236     Document Type: Article

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