Knowledge-based segmentation of the heart from respiratory-gated CT datasets acquired without cardiac contrast-enhancement.
Joyoni DeyTin-Su PanDavid J. ChoiMark SmyczynskiP. Hendrik PretoriusMichael A. KingPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2006)
Keyphrases
- blood pool
- left ventricle
- contrast enhancement
- left ventricular
- image enhancement
- contrast enhanced
- fully automatic
- heart disease
- cardiac mri
- image analysis
- echocardiographic images
- multiscale
- histogram equalization
- cardiac magnetic resonance
- gray level
- computer tomography
- heart wall
- low dose
- cardiac cycle
- short axis
- low contrast
- transfer function
- left atrium
- color images
- respiratory motion
- motion compensation
- enhanced image
- ct images
- edge detection
- medical images
- dce mri
- cardiac motion
- adaptive histogram equalization
- x ray
- medical imaging
- image slices
- image data
- clinical applications
- computer vision
- color restoration
- mri data
- ct scans