Automatic computation of left ventricular ejection fraction from spatiotemporal information in cine-SSFP cardiac MR images

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-50

  Pednekar, Amol S ^a,b   Muthupillai, Raja ^a,b,c   Cheong, Benjamin ^a   Flamm, Scott D ^a,c  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic left ventricular segmentation; Cardiovascular MR; Ejection fraction; Fuzzy connectedness; Spatiotemporal continuity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 46849091935     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21363     Document Type: Article

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