Title :
Automatic global localization of the heart from Cine MRI images
Author :
Hadhoud, Marwa M A ; Eladawy, Mohamed I. ; Farag, Ahmed
Author_Institution :
Biomed. Eng. Dept., Helwan Univ., Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a method for localizing the global position of the heart from Cine MRI images. This method is fast, and fully automatic. It depends on the standard deviation from the stack of images that we work on, and the position of the heart will have the greatest motion standard deviation because the heart is almost the only organ moves in the images. We test this method on 14 patients, and we get 100% accuracy of localizing the heart.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; cardiovascular system; diseases; image motion analysis; medical image processing; Cine MRI images; automatic global heart localization; heart position; motion standard deviation; Cardiovascular diseases; Databases; Heart; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motion segmentation; Cardiac MRI; Medical Imaging;
Conference_Titel :
IT in Medicine and Education (ITME), 2011 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cuangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-701-6
DOI :
10.1109/ITiME.2011.6132051
