Title :
3-D cardiac volume analysis using magnetic resonance imaging
Author :
O´Donnell, Thomas ; Funka-Lea, Gareth
Author_Institution :
Siemens Corp. Res. Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a method for calculating the blood pool volume and myocardial mass of an in-vivo human Left-Ventricle (LV) non-invasively from multi-axis MR acquisitions. Segmented contours from both long and short-axis views are fused via a global model with parametric offsets which has a default configuration resembling a typical LV. From this model mass and volume may be computed. The results of the model fit are displayed for confirmation in a virtual reality environment which allows stereo viewing, multi-planar reformatting (MPR), and user interaction for model editing among other features
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; cardiology; medical image processing; virtual reality; Left-Ventricle; blood pool volume; cardiac volume analysis; in-vivo human; magnetic resonance imaging; multi-axis MR acquisitions; myocardial mass; user interaction; virtual reality environment; Blood; Image analysis; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardium; Pixel; Spline; Surface fitting; Virtual reality; Volume measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Applications of Computer Vision, 1998. WACV '98. Proceedings., Fourth IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8606-5
DOI :
10.1109/ACV.1998.732888
