Automatic segmentation of the left atrium from MR images via variational region growing with a moments-based shape prior

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5111-5122

  Zhu, Liangjia ^a   Gao, Yi ^a   Yezzi, Anthony ^b   Tannenbaum, Allen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrium segmentation; Shape priors; Variational region growing; Zernike moments

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; LEFT ATRIUMS; REGION GROWING; SHAPE PRIORS; ZERNIKE MOMENTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84885588086     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2282049     Document Type: Article

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