Automatic segmentation of cardiac CTs - Personalized atrial models augmented with electrophysiological structures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6666 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 80-87

  Neher, Peter ^a,b   Barschdorf, Hans ^b   Dries, Sebastian ^b   Weber, Frank M ^a   Krueger, Martin W ^a   Dössel, Olaf ^a   Lorenz, Cristian ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; automatic segmentation; cardiac atrium; computed tomography; electrophysiological structures

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; CARDIAC ATRIUM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; HEART; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 79957659192     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21028-0_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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