DocumentCode :
2766126
Title :
Estimation of Changes in Left Ventricular Wall Thickness in Full Short Axis CMRI to Diagnosis Myocardium Infarctions
Author :
HajiRassouliha, Amir ; Ayatollahi, Ahmad
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran
fYear :
2009
fDate :
7-9 March 2009
Firstpage :
90
Lastpage :
94
Abstract :
We investigate automatic computer-based estimation of changes in left ventricular wall thickness in full short-axis MRI data. Changes in left ventricular wall thickness have been used for two patients to detect myocardium infarctions. At the first step the cardiac area is found in full short axis gadolinium enhanced cardiac MRI in diastolic and systolic states. After finding the left ventricular (LV) cavity we could estimate changes in LV wall thickness based on the changes in left ventricular areas in diastolic and systolic states. Myocardium infarctions are localized due to American Heart Association standard segmentations. Our method is completely automatic and there is no need for doing any steps manually.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; cardiology; image segmentation; medical image processing; automatic computer-based estimation; cardiac MRI; image segmentation; left ventricular wall thickness; myocardium infarction diagnosis; short-axis gadolinium enhanced MRI data; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Digital images; Heart; Image segmentation; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic materials; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardium; State estimation; Full short-axis Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI); Left Ventricular wall thickness; Myocardium Infarction; Standard left ventricular segmentation;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Digital Image Processing, 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3565-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICDIP.2009.11
Filename :
5190623
Link To Document :
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