A framework of whole heart extracellular volume fraction estimation for low-dose Cardiac CT images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 842-851

  Chen, Xinjian ^a   Nacif, Marcelo S ^b   Liu, Songtao ^b   Sibley, Christopher ^b   Summers, Ronald M ^b   Bluemke, David A ^b   Yao, Jianhua ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT (CCT); extracellular volume (ECV) fraction; myocardium segmentation; registration

Indexed keywords

BLOOD POOL; CARDIAC CT; DATA SETS; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; EXTRACELLULAR VOLUMES; FRACTION ESTIMATION; GRAPH CUT; LOW DOSE; MYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; MYOCARDIUM SEGMENTATION; REGISTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866614769     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2204405     Document Type: Article

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