Localization and segmentation of left ventricle in cardiac cine-MR images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1360-1370

  Kurkure, Uday ^a   Pednekar, Amol ^b   Muthupillai, Raja ^c   Flamm, Scott D ^d   Kakadiaris, Ioannis A ^e  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

CardiacMRI; Dynamic programming; Fuzzy connectedness; Left ventricle (LV); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DETECTION; CARDIACMRI; COIL SENSITIVITY; DATA-DRIVEN; EJECTION FRACTION; END-DIASTOLIC; END-SYSTOLIC VOLUMES; FUZZY AFFINITY; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; HYBRID SEGMENTATION; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; LEFT VENTRICLE (LV); LEFT VENTRICLES; LEFT VENTRICULAR; MR IMAGES; MULTI-CLASS; MYOCARDIAL CONTOURS; NONUNIFORM; NOVEL METHODS; PAPILLARY MUSCLE; PARTIAL VOLUMING; SEGMENTATION;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649199602     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2005957     Document Type: Article

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