Fractal frontiers in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: Towards clinical implementation

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Captur, Gabriella ^a,b   Karperien, Audrey L ^c   Li, Chunming ^d   Zemrak, Filip ^b,e   Tobon Gomez, Catalina ^f   Gao, Xuexin ^g   Bluemke, David A ^h   Elliott, Perry M ^a,b   Petersen, Steffen E ^b,e   Moon, James C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc ^*  (Canada)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance; Image processing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84940824012     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12968-015-0179-0     Document Type: Review

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