Multi-part modeling and segmentation of left atrium in C-Arm CT for image-guided ablation of atrial fibrillation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 318-331

  Zheng, Yefeng ^a   Yang, Dong ^a   John, Matthias ^a   Comaniciu, Dorin ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation ablation; C arm CT; left atrial appendage segmentation; left atrium modeling and segmentation; pulmonary vein segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY VEINS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84894084793     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2284382     Document Type: Article

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