Incorporation of geometrical information to identify cardiac structures in MRI

Author

De Sá Rebelo, Marina ; Tierrez, Marcoa Ntoniogu ; Furuie, Sérgio Shiguemi ; Moura, Lincoln

Author_Institution

Instituto do Coracao, Sao Paulo, Brazil

fYear

2001

fDate

37165

Firstpage

389

Abstract

The inclusion of a priori information about organs can and should be used for helping the task of automatically recognizing and segmenting structures in medical images. The aim of the work is the extraction of cardiac structures from thoracic MR images. To achieve this goal we propose the incorporation of a priori information about shape and relative position of the cardiac chambers using a multiscale approach

Keywords

NMR imaging; cardiology; feature extraction; image recognition; image segmentation; medical image processing; 3D visualization; MRI; a priori information; automatically recognizing structures; automatically segmenting structures; cardiac chambers; cardiac structures; congenital cardiac diseases; geometrical information; magnetic resonance images; medical images; multiscale approach; organs; pre-surgical procedures; relative position; shape; thoracic MR images; Biomedical imaging; Computer vision; Data mining; Image recognition; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Shape; Solid modeling; Space power stations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 2001 Proceedings of XIV Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Florianopolis

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1330-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2001.963095

Filename

963095