Fast automatic myocardial segmentation in 4D cine CMR datasets

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1115-1131

  Queirós, Sandro ^a,b   Barbosa, Daniel ^a,c,d   Heyde, Brecht ^a   Morais, Pedro ^a,b   Vilaça, João L ^b,d   Friboulet, Denis ^c   Bernard, Olivier ^c   D'hooge, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Automatic initialization; Cardiac cine MRI; Fast image segmentation; Left ventricle segmentation

Indexed keywords

TOPOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC INITIALIZATION; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CINE-MRI; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CONSTRAINED OPTICAL FLOW; INITIALIZATION METHODS; LEFT VENTRICLES; MYOCARDIAL SEGMENTATIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENERGY; HEART CYCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; OPTIC FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

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

EID: 84904465495     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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