Accurate automatic analysis of cardiac cine images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 445-455

  Khalifa, Fahmi ^a   Beache, Garth M ^b   Gimelrfarb, Georgy ^c   Giridharan, Guruprasad A ^b   El Baz, Ayman ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Heart MRI; Laplace equation; level set; Markov Gibbs random field; regional myocardial function; segmentation; wall thickening

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; CARDIAC CYCLES; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIAC MR; CINE IMAGES; DATA SETS; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GATED IMAGES; GAUSS-MARKOV; GEOMETRIC DEFORMABLE MODELS; GLOBAL FUNCTIONS; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH ROBUSTNESS; IMAGE MODELS; INITIAL ESTIMATE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT VENTRICLES; LEVEL SET; MARKOV-GIBBS RANDOM FIELDS; MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RANDOM FIELDS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SHAPE AND APPEARANCE MODEL; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; WALL THICKENING; WALL THICKNESS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HEART; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE EQUATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TISSUE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84856140379     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2174235     Document Type: Article

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