A high-resolution atlas and statistical model of the human heart from multislice CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-44

  Hoogendoorn, Corné ^a,b   Duchateau, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Sanchez Quintana, Damián ^d   Whitmarsh, Tristan ^b,d,e   Sukno, Federico M ^b,f   De Craene, Mathieu ^b,c,g   Lekadir, Karim ^b,c   Frangi, Alejandro F ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^g PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlases; computational physiology; computed tomography; heart; population analysis; probabilistic and statistical methods; registration; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ATLASES; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POPULATION ANALYSIS; REGISTRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; ATLAS; HEART; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; MOTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOOK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871998599     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2230015     Document Type: Article

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