A new framework for automated segmentation of left ventricle wall from contrast enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance images

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2289-2292

  Elnakib, Ahmed ^a   Beache, Garth M ^b   Gimel'farb, Georgy ^c   El Baz, Ayman ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Contrast Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images; Left Ventricle; Markov Gibbs Random Field; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; COMPARISON RESULT; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DESCRIPTORS; EIKONAL; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; IN-VIVO; INNER CAVITIES; LEFT VENTRICLES; MARKOV-GIBBS RANDOM FIELDS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; SPEED FUNCTION; VISUAL APPEARANCE;

ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84856237044     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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