Segmentation of the endocardial wall of the left atrium using local region-based active contours and statistical shape learning

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7623, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Gao, Yi ^a   Gholami, Behnood ^b   MacLeod, Robert S ^c   Blauer, Joshua ^c   Haddad, Wassim M ^b   Tannenbaum, Allen R ^a,d,e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

ablation therapy; active contours; Atrial fibrillation; shape based segmentation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LEFT ATRIUMS; LOCAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; SCAR FORMATION; SHAPE BASED; SHAPE LEARNING; SHAPE-BASED SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SHAPES;

ABLATION; CATHETERS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RESONANCE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 79751508968     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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