Improving the reproducibility of MR-derived left ventricular volume and function measurements with a semi-automatic threshold-based segmentation algorithm

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 617-623

  Jaspers, Karolien ^a   Freling, Hendrik G ^a   Van Wijk, Kees ^c   Romijn, Elisabeth I ^a,b   Greuter, Marcel J W ^a   Willems, Tineke P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Medis Medical Imaging Systems bv   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging; Function; Left ventricle; Segmentation algorithm; Trabeculae

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMI AUTOMATIC THRESHOLD BASED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84879554265     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-012-0130-5     Document Type: Article

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