Fully automatic segmentation of the mitral leaflets in 3D transesophageal echocardiographic images using multi-atlas joint label fusion and deformable medial modeling

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 118-129

  Pouch, A M ^a,b   Wang, H ^b   Takabe, M ^b   Jackson, B M ^b   Gorman, J H ^b   Gorman, R C ^b   Yushkevich, P A ^b   Sehgal, C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D echocardiography; Label fusion; Medial representation; Mitral valve; Multi atlas segmentation

Indexed keywords

3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CONTINUOUS MEDIAL REPRESENTATIONS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; LABEL FUSIONS; MEDIAL REPRESENTATION; MITRAL VALVES; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES;

DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMABLE MEDIAL MODELING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIASTOLE; GEOMETRY; GOLD STANDARD; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MULTI ATLAS JOINT LABEL FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VOLUMETRY;

3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LABEL FUSION; MEDIAL REPRESENTATION; MITRAL VALVE; MULTI-ATLAS SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MITRAL VALVE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84886838780     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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