Automatic Cardiac Segmentation Using Semantic Information from Random Forests

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 794-804

  Mahapatra, Dwarikanath ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Graph cut; MRI; Right ventricle; Semantic information

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RANDOM FORESTS; SEMANTICS; SUPERPIXELS; TEXTURES;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; GRAPH CUT; GRAPH-CUT SEGMENTATIONS; RIGHT VENTRICLE; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; THE REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION TREE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SEMANTICS;

DECISION TREES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84911970438     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-014-9705-0     Document Type: Article

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