Methodology for jointly assessing myocardial infarct extent and regional contraction in 3-D CMRI

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2650-2659

  Chenoune, Y ^a,b   Pellot Barakat, C ^a   Constantinides, C ^a,b   Berbari, R El ^c   Lefort, M ^a   Roullot, E ^b   Mousseaux, E ^a,d   Frouin, F ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b ESME Sudria   (France)

^c NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); contraction function; delayed enhancement quantification; segmentation; Three dimensional registration

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; AUTOMATIC QUANTIFICATION; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CINE-MRI; DELAYED-ENHANCEMENT QUANTIFICATION; LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM SEGMENTATION; NEW INDICES; POST-PROCESSING PROCEDURE; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; RIGID REGISTRATION; SCAN ALIGNMENT; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME RATIO; WALL MOTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84865474216     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2205925     Document Type: Article

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