Motion-guided segmentation for cine DENSE MRI

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-115

  Spottiswoode, Bruce S ^a   Zhong, Xiaodong ^b   Lorenz, Christine H ^c   Mayosi, Bongani M ^d   Meintjes, Ernesta M ^a   Epstein, Frederick H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; DENSE; Myocardial tagging; Segmentation; Tissue tracking

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PIXELS;

CARDIAC MRI; DENSE; MYOCARDIAL TAGGING; SEGMENTATION; TISSUE TRACKING;

IMAGE CODING;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; VOLUNTEER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 57049149643     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.06.016     Document Type: Article

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