An accurate, fast and robust method to generate patient-specific cubic Hermite meshes

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 801-813

  Lamata, Pablo ^a,b   Niederer, Steven ^a,b   Nordsletten, David ^a,b   Barber, David C ^c   Roy, Ishani ^a,b   Hose, D Rod ^c   Smith, Nic ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational mesh; Computational physiology; Cubic Hermite; Image registration; Patient specific

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; BASIS FUNCTIONS; BIVENTRICULAR MODELS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL UTILITY; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY; CONTINUUM SIMULATIONS; CUBIC HERMITE; DISCRETISATION; IN-SILICO; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGES; PATIENT IMAGES; PATIENT'S ANATOMY; PATIENT-SPECIFIC; ROBUST METHODS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SUB-VOXEL ACCURACY; WARPING TECHNIQUES; WORK-FLOWS;

DEFORMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MECHANICAL STABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; ART; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CUBIC HERMITE MESH; HEART; HEART CYCLE; IMAGING; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 80053940397     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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