Title :
Myocardial fiber track-oriented analysis based on the FCM method
Author :
Yuan, Yongfeng ; Kong, Shuhan ; Wang, Kuanquan
Author_Institution :
Bio-Comput. Res. Center, Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
Abstract :
A great understand of the structure and function of the heart continues to challenge modern medicine and physiology. Recently, diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) provides an effective means to measure and reconstruct anatomic structure and fiber architecture of the myocardium. Based on the DT-MRI dataset, in this study, the fuzzy C-means clustering method (FCM) is employed to investigate the underlying link between regional fiber contractile within the myocardium and the global function of the heart. The clustered results clearly show the contribution of the regional fiber orientation to the ventricular twist. Our observation of a helical functional band based on DT-MRI data of the ventricle is in agreement with dissection studies in the heart.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; fuzzy set theory; medical image processing; pattern clustering; FCM method; MRI; anatomic structure reconstruction; diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; fiber architecture; fuzzy C-means clustering method; helical functional band; myocardial fiber track-oriented analysis; regional fiber contractile; ventricular twist; Biomedical measurements; Myocardium; Physiology; DT-MRI; FCM; fiber track; myocardium;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Computer Control (ICACC), 2011 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Harbin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8809-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8810-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICACC.2011.6016467
