Automated threshold-based 3D segmentation versus short-axis planimetry for assessment of global left ventricular function with dual-source MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 308-314

  Juergens, Kai Uwe ^a   Seifarth, Harald ^a   Range, Felix ^a   Wienbeck, Susanne ^a   Wenker, Mirja ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Fischbach, Roman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Clinic Altona   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual source CT; Left ventricular function; Short axis based planimetry; Simpson method; Threshold 3D segmentation algorithm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38849175599     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2283     Document Type: Article

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