A registration-based propagation framework for automatic whole heart segmentation of cardiac MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1612-1625

  Zhuang, Xiahai ^a   Rhode, Kawal S ^b   Razavi, Reza S ^b   Hawkes, David J ^a   Ourselin, Sebastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlas; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); dynamic resampling and distance weighting interpolation (DRAW); free form deformations; image registration; inverse transformation; locally affine registration; locally affine registration method (LARM); whole heart segmentation

Indexed keywords

AFFINE REGISTRATION; ATLAS; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FREE-FORM DEFORMATION; INVERSE TRANSFORMATIONS; WHOLE HEART SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DEFORMATION; HEART; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MORPHOLOGY; RESONANCE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77955338877     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2047112     Document Type: Article

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