Automatic classification of scar tissue in late gadolinium enhancement cardiac MRI for the assessment of left-atrial wall injury after radiofrequency ablation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Perry, Daniel ^a   Morris, Alan ^a   Burgon, Nathan ^a   McGann, Christopher ^a   Macleod, Robert ^a   Cates, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Automatic segmentation; DE MRI; K means clustering; Left atrium; LGE MRI; Radiofrequency ablation; Scar segmentation

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LEFT ATRIUMS; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; SCAR SEGMENTATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE;

ABLATION;

EID: 84874900500     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.910833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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