Isolation of the left atrial surface from cardiac multi-detector CT images based on marker controlled watershed segmentation

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-58

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b SANTA CHIARA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anisotropic filtering; Computed tomography; Image segmentation; Left atrium; Mathematical morphology; Watershed

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; NONLINEAR FILTERING; PATIENT MONITORING;

ANISOTROPIC FILTERING; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF); VARIABLE THRESHOLD SURFACE EXTRACTION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; IMAGE DISPLAY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANATOMY, REGIONAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PULMONARY VEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38149019814     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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