Automatic aorta segmentation and valve landmark detection in C-Arm CT for transcatheter aortic valve implantation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2307-2321

  Zheng, Yefeng ^a   John, Matthias ^b   Liao, Rui ^a   Nöttling, Alois ^b   Boese, Jan ^b   Kempfert, Jörg ^c   Walther, Thomas ^c   Brockmann, Gernot ^d   Comaniciu, Dorin ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c Department of Cardiac Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aorta segmentation; aortic valve landmark detection; C arm computed tomography (CT); transcatheter aortic valve implantation; transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Indexed keywords

AORTA MODEL; AORTIC ARCH; AORTIC ROOT; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVES; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL SETTINGS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST AGENT; CT VOLUME; DATA SETS; DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; INTRA-OPERATIVE; LANDMARK DETECTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; PATIENT CARE; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS; SURGICAL PLANNING;

ARCHES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ROBOTIC ARMS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; AORTA VALVE; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC VALVE; AORTOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870554682     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2216541     Document Type: Article

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