Automatic identification of the left ventricle in cardiac cine-MR images: dual-contrast cluster analysis and scout-geometry approaches
| Autor: | Scott D. Flamm, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Raja Muthupillai, Veronica V. Lenge, Amol Pednekar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Heart Ventricles Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cine Geometry Ventricular Dysfunction Left Fuzzy Logic Reference Values Geometric continuity Healthy volunteers medicine Image Processing Computer-Assisted Contrast (vision) Cluster Analysis Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Segmentation media_common Aged Reproducibility of Results Steady-state free precession imaging Middle Aged medicine.anatomical_structure Ventricle Feasibility Studies Female Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI. 23(5) |
| ISSN: | 1053-1807 |
| Popis: | Purpose To evaluate the technical feasibility of two approaches—dual-contrast (DC) cluster analysis, and scout geometry (SG)—for automatic identification of the left ventricular (LV) cavity in short-axis (SA) cine-MR images. Materials and Methods The DC algorithm uses Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) cluster analysis of SA images from a black-blood double-inversion recovery turbo spin-echo (dual IR TSE) sequence, and bright-blood images from a steady-state free precession (SSFP) sequence. The SG algorithm employs geometric information from scout views (i.e., vertical long-axis (VLA) and four-chamber (4CH) views). Both algorithms incorporate additional geometric continuity constraints along with LV region segmentation to identify the LV. The performance of both algorithms was compared on images of eight healthy volunteers, and the SG algorithm was further evaluated on images of 13 clinical patients. Results The DC algorithm identified the LV in 89% (72/75 at end-diastole (ED) and 47/59 at end-systole (ES)) of the images from healthy volunteers, compared to 98% (74/75 at ED and 57/59 at ES) by the SG algorithm. Both methods are robust against interslice signal variations and misalignment. The DC method suffers from misregistration between the dual IR TSE and SSFP images near the apex at ES. The SG method identified the LV in 91% (112/122 at ED and 91/102 at ES) of the images from clinical patients. Conclusion The SG method requires no additional scan, is robust and accurate, and performs better than the DC method for automatic identification of the LV. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2006. © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
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