A method to standardize quantification of left atrial scar from delayed-enhancement MR images

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Karim, Rashed ^a   Arujuna, Aruna ^a   Housden, Richard James ^a   Gill, Jaspal ^a   Cliffe, Hannah ^a   Matharu, Kavir ^a   Gill, Jaswinder ^b   Rindaldi, Christopher Aldo ^b   O'Neill, Mark ^b   Rueckert, Daniel ^c   Razavi, Reza ^a   Schaeffter, Tobias ^a   Rhode, Kawal ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation models; Biomedical imaging; Blood; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardium; Training

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BLOOD; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

ADAPTATION MODELS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DELAYED ENHANCEMENT MAGNETIC RESONANCES; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; MYOCARDIUM; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84908613029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21682372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JTEHM.2014.2312191     Document Type: Article

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