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

fYear

2011

fDate

18-20 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

520

Lastpage

523

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACC.2011.6016467

Filename

6016467