Automatic detection of regional heart rejection in USPIO-enhanced MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1095-1106

  Chang, Hsun Hsien ^a,b   Moura, José M F ^a,c   Wu, Yijen L ^d   Ho, Chien ^d  

^a IEEE

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute heart rejection; Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Cheeger constant; Classification; Classifier; Contrast agents; Graph cut; Graph Laplacian; Spectral graph theory; Ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) enhanced MRI

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRON; IRON OXIDES; IRON RESEARCH; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; PARAMAGNETISM; RESONANCE; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

ACUTE HEART REJECTION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); CHEEGER CONSTANT; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFIER; CONTRAST AGENTS; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; GRAPH CUT; GRAPH LAPLACIAN; IMMUNE CELLS; IN-VIVO; SPECTRAL GRAPH THEORY; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE (USPIO)-ENHANCED MRI;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IRON; OXIDE; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48549091396     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.918329     Document Type: Article

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