Automatic assessment of myocardial fibrosis by delayed enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings, ISBI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1497-1500

  Positano, Vincenzo ^a   Brotini, Laura ^b   Aquaro, Giovanni ^a   Pingitore, Alessandro ^a   Lombardi, Massimo ^a   Landini, Luigi ^b   Santarelli, Maria Filomena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardial fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MR IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS;

RESONANCE;

EID: 51049091413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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