Comparison of manual, semi- and fully automated heart segmentation for assessing global left ventricular function in multidetector computed tomography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 476-482

  Plumhans, Cedric ^a   Keil, Sebastian ^a   Ocklenburg, Christina ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fully automated segmentation software tool; Left ventricular function assessment; Manual; Multidetector CT; Semi manual

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

EID: 68449092611     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181aaf4e1     Document Type: Article

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