cardiac images
Elastic Registration of Cardiac Images Using Automatic Segmentation
... enhanced cardiac and liver ...match images in the presence of noise and contrast ...enhanced images, its robustness can be further improved when used as a similarity ...
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Stratified decision forests for accurate anatomical landmark localization in cardiac images
... The stratification splits can be trained with the box features presented in Section III-A. However, global scale features are found to be more expressive in separating images in terms of shape and pose parameters ...
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Deformation analysis of 3D tagged cardiac images using an optical flow method
... Studies performed by other groups have investigated the regional displacements and strains generated in the LV during systole. Young et al. [41] compared the 3D interpolated displacement and deformation recon- structed ...
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Computational Methods for Segmentation of Multi-Modal Multi-Dimensional Cardiac Images
... The short-axis cine MR slices can be acquired throughout the cardiac cycle using the SSFP sequence coupled with the echocardiogram (ECG) gating. Multiple short- axis cine MR slices covering the whole heart are ...
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Nonrigid registration with corresponding points constraint for automatic segmentation of cardiac DSCT images
... of cardiac CT and MR ...MR cardiac images ...the cardiac chambers were constructed through principal component analysis (PCA) of the manually segmented training ...of cardiac MR ...
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4D Cardiac Reconstruction Using High Resolution CT Images
... Recent advances in CT technology have made the acquisition of higher res- olution cardiac images possible, which can capture previously unseen cardiac structure details. However, these anatomical ...
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From medical images to individualized cardiac mechanics: A Physiome approach
... from simple closed polygons on parallel planes [10]. For the synthetic data used in the experiments, the closed polygons were obtained from subsampling and rearranging the surface points of the heart architecture of the ...
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Learning anatomical image representations for cardiac imaging
... 2D short axis (SAX) cine MR images are of crucial importance for the accurate assessment of cardiac anatomy and function. Since SAX cine stacks are routinely acquired during multiple breath-holds, different ...
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Virtual guidance: a new technique to empower point-of-care ultrasound in remote or extreme environments
... some cardiac images by following the virtual guidance instructions as determined by the quality of the study and post-study interviews with the participants ...stored images was 12 (range 9–17 ...
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Progress towards model-based estimation of the cardiac electromechanical activity from ECG signals and 4D images
... Our approach combines a 3D numerical model of the electric wave propagation with a 3D biomechanical model of the myocardium. The two models are explicitly coupled in the simulation to generate a dynamic behavior of the ...
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1. Heuristic detection of blockage in coronary arteries from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging images and predicting heart failure risk using digital image processing
... Coronary artery disease, in short, CAD is one of the main and important cause of human death in various countries all around the world. Every year millions of dollars is invested for the treatment of coronary artery ...
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The novel in vitro reanimation of isolated human and large mammalian heart-lung blocs
... In a similar embodiment (i.e., without the lungs), this reanimated heart model has been utilized in numerous cardiac studies. In the electrophysiologic area, these studies have included the use of endocardial ...
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Descriptive analysis of a bilingual and cross-cultural introductory ultrasound course facilitated by simultaneous translation
... We organized a 2-day training session on goal-directed emergency sonography. The content and organization of this kind of training have been previously validated [11]. The curriculum is in accordance with the guidelines ...
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Model based visualization of cardiac virtual tissue
... to images such as those shown in Figure 1 (see also, for example, ...function. Cardiac arrhythmias such as this are an important cause of premature death in the industrialised world, yet the mechanisms that ...
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Sleep Preserves Physiological Arousal in Emotional Memory
... related decrease in SCRs to negative images. Interestingly, participants in Pace-Schott et al. were repeatedly exposed to a small number of images at encoding, with SCRs showing strong intra-session ...
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Answer and discussion: Cardiovascular imaging quiz case
... Dedicated cardiac phased array-coils utilised with ECG- triggering improve spatial and contrast resolution for better lesion ...echo images usually in short axis depict the inflammatory changes of acute ...
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High Throughput Computation of Reference Ranges of Biventricular Cardiac Function on the UK Biobank Population Cohort
... input images, segmentation of the cardiac structures, as- sessment of the segmentation quality, and parsing of cardiac functional ...of cardiac MR images, and test its performance on ...
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Lesion quantification and detection in myocardial 18F-FDG PET using edge-preserving priors and anatomical information from CT and MRI: a simulation study
... reconstructed images as a side effect of resolution modelling during reconstruction, or when images are extremely noisy, the max-count polar maps would assign to the PM values that are an overestimation of ...
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Combining Multi-Sequence and Synthetic Images for Improved Segmentation of Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiac MRI
... synthetic images, a modified U-Net architecture [14] was used for the image segmentation by integrating two techniques: (1) a deep supervision term in the upsampling path as proposed in [15] that will act as ...
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Adversarial Convolutional Networks with Weak Domain-Transfer for Multi-sequence Cardiac MR Images Segmentation
... Abstract. Analysis and modeling of the ventricles and myocardium are important in the diagnostic and treatment of heart diseases. Manual delineation of those tissues in cardiac MR (CMR) scans is laborious and ...
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