Left ventricle segmentation in MRI via convex relaxed distribution matching

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1010-1024

  Nambakhsh, Cyrus M S ^a,b   Yuan, Jing ^b   Punithakumar, Kumaradevan ^c   Goela, Aashish ^a   Rajchl, Martin ^a,b   Peters, Terry M ^a,b   Ayed, Ismail Ben ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D segmentation; Cardiac MRI; Convex relaxation optimization; Fixed point optimization; Graphics processing unit

Indexed keywords

3D SEGMENTATION; AUGMENTED LAGRANGIAN METHODS; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; CARDIAC MRI; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; DISTRIBUTION MATCHING; FIXED POINT EQUATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

3D SEGMENTATION; CARDIAC MRI; CONVEX-RELAXATION OPTIMIZATION; FIXED-POINT OPTIMIZATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

ALGORITHMS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERICARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880350447     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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