| Literature DB >> 17281185 |
Ayman Khalifa1, A B M Youssef, Nael Osman.
Abstract
The diagnosis of cardiovascular disease requires precise assessment of both morphology and function of the heart. Currently, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a useful tool for accurate and reproducible assessment of regional function of the left ventricle noninvasively. MR tagging produces images of the heart that can be analyzed using harmonic phase (HARP) method to describe the regional function of the heart. In order to calculate regional function, a circular mesh is manually built at a specific timeframe, after which the points of such mesh are tracked using the HARP technique. The tracking is not perfect and some individual points on the mesh could fail in tracking. In this work, a new method is presented to improve the tracking by combining HARP with active contour methods. This modified HARP technique is more robust than the previous HARP technique.Entities:
Year: 2005 PMID： 17281185 DOI： 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615415
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc ISSN： 1557-170X