Automatic segmentation of rotational X-ray images for anatomic intra-procedural surface generation in atrial fibrillation ablation procedures

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 260-272

  Manzke, Robert ^a   Meyer, Carsten ^a   Ecabert, Olivier ^a   Peters, Jochen ^a   Noordhoek, Niels J ^b   Thiagalingam, Aravinda ^c   Reddy, Vivek Y ^d   Chan, Raymond C ^e   Weese, Jürgen ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Cardiac electrophysiology; Electro anatomic mapping; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Interventional guidance; Left atrium; Model based segmentation; Pulmonary veins; Reconstruction; Shape constrained deformable models

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DEFORMABLE MODELS; ELECTRO-ANATOMIC MAPPING; INTERVENTIONAL; LEFT ATRIUMS; MODEL-BASED SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY VEINS;

ABLATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAPPING; MESH GENERATION; NEUROLOGY; REPAIR; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76249126485     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2021946     Document Type: Article

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