Automatic construction of 3D-ASM intensity models by simulating image acquisition: Application to myocardial gated SPECT studies

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1655-1667

  Tobon Gomez, Catalina ^a,b   Butakoff, Constantine ^a,b   Aguade, Santiago ^c   Sukno, Federico ^a,b   Moragas, Gloria ^d   Frangi, Alejandro F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c Hospital Vail d'Hebron   (Spain)

^d CETIR Unidad Teknon   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D active shape model (ASM); Automatic model building; Gated SPECT; Intensity model; NCAT; SIMIND

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; METAL WORKING SHAPERS; MOSFET DEVICES; POPULATION STATISTICS; REPAIR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL (ASM); AUTOMATIC MODEL BUILDING; GATED SPECT; INTENSITY MODEL; NCAT; SIMIND;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 54949148713     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2004819     Document Type: Article

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