Quality metrics for high order meshes: Analysis of the mechanical simulation of the heart beat

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 130-138

  Lamata, Pablo ^a,b   Roy, Ishani ^a   Blazevic, Bojan ^a   Crozier, Andrew ^a   Land, Sander ^a,b   Niederer, Steven A ^a   Rod Hose, D ^c   Smith, Nicolas P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational cardiac physiology; computational mesh; image registration; mesh quality; mesh stability

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY; CHANGES IN VOLUME; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; FITTING ACCURACY; GEOMETRICAL QUALITY; HEART BEATS; MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; MESH ELEMENTS; MESH QUALITY; ORTHOGONALITY; PERSONALIZATIONS; QUALITY METRICS; QUALITY VALUE; SIMULATION PROCESS;

ASPECT RATIO; HEART; IMAGE REGISTRATION; STABILITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART; HEART BEAT; HEART CYCLE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871939819     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2231094     Document Type: Article

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