Semi automatic estimation and visualization of left ventricle volumes in cardiac MRI

Author

De Pablo, Mm García ; Malpica, N. ; Ledesma-Carbayo, MJ ; Jiménez-Borreguero, Lj ; Santos, A.

Author_Institution

ETSI Telecomunicacion, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid

fYear

2005

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

399

Lastpage

402

Abstract

The main goal of this work was to implement an easy and convenient new tool to load, visualize and segment cardiac magnetic resonance images (CMRI) in order to obtain basic parameters for cardiac function estimation and to visualize the results in a quantitative and graphical way. The proposed method tracks the contour of the left ventricle at endocardial level through all the cardiac cycle to measure the ventricular volume and the ejection fraction, using active contour techniques to differentiate structures within an image

Keywords

biomedical MRI; blood flow measurement; blood vessels; cardiovascular system; data visualisation; flow visualisation; image segmentation; medical image processing; volume measurement; active contour techniques; cardiac MRI; cardiac magnetic resonance images; ejection fraction; endocardial level; graphic representation; image segmentation; left ventricular volume visualization; quantitative measurement; semi automatic cardiac function estimation; Active contours; Anatomy; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Data visualization; Heart; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical treatment; Volume measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2005

Conference_Location

Lyon

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9337-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2005.1588121

Filename

1588121