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Automated segmentation of human cardiac magnetic resonance datasets has been steadily improving during recent years. However, these methods are not directly applicable in preclinical context due to limited datasets and lower image…

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Real-time cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an increasingly important role in various cardiac interventions. In order to enable fast and accurate visual assistance, the temporal frames need to be segmented on-the-fly. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Tianchen Wang , Xiaowei Xu , Jinjun Xiong , Qianjun Jia , Haiyun Yuan , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang , Yiyu Shi

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard for assessing cardiac function, but individual cardiac cycles complicate automatic temporal comparison or sub-phase analysis. Accurate cardiac keyframe detection can eliminate…

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Use expert visualization or conventional clinical indices can lack accuracy for borderline classications. Advanced statistical approaches based on eigen-decomposition have been mostly concerned with shape and motion indices. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Irem Cetin , Gerard Sanroma , Steffen E. Petersen , Sandy Napel , Oscar Camara , Miguel-Angel Gonzalez Ballester , Karim Lekadir

Biomedical image segmentation is critical for accurate identification and analysis of anatomical structures in medical imaging, particularly in cardiac MRI. Manual segmentation is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to errors,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Ting Yu Tsai , Li Lin , Shu Hu , Ming-Ching Chang , Hongtu Zhu , Xin Wang

Quantitative assessment of left ventricle (LV) function from cine MRI has significant diagnostic and prognostic value for cardiovascular disease patients. The temporal movement of LV provides essential information on the…

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Background: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to assess blood flow conditions in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). This requires patient-specific anatomy, usually obtained from segmented 3D cardiovascular…

Accurate segmentation of coronary arteries is a pivotal process in assessing cardiovascular diseases. However, the intricate structure of the cardiovascular system presents significant challenges for automatic segmentation, especially when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Jonghoe Ku , Yong-Hee Lee , Junsup Shin , In Kyu Lee , Hyun-Woo Kim

Accurate cardiac motion estimation from cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images is vital for assessing cardiac function and detecting its abnormalities. Existing methods often struggle to capture heart motion accurately because they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Reza Akbari Movahed , Abuzar Rezaee , Arezoo Zakeri , Colin Berry , Edmond S. L. Ho , Ali Gooya

Anatomical and biophysical modeling of left atrium (LA) and proximal pulmonary veins (PPVs) is important for clinical management of several cardiac diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows qualitative assessment of LA and PPVs…

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The success and generalisation of deep learning algorithms heavily depend on learning good feature representations. In medical imaging this entails representing anatomical information, as well as properties related to the specific imaging…

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Real-time cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an increasingly important role in guiding various cardiac interventions. In order to provide better visual assistance, the cine MRI frames need to be segmented on-the-fly to avoid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Dewen Zeng , Weiwen Jiang , Tianchen Wang , Xiaowei Xu , Haiyun Yuan , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang , Jingtong Hu , Yiyu Shi

Cardiac diseases are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, which requires accurate and timely diagnostic strategies. In this study, we introduce an innovative approach that combines deep learning image registration…

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Pathological area segmentation in cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images plays a vital role in the clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Because of the irregular shape and small area, pathological segmentation has always been a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-21 Yuncheng Zhou , Ke Zhang , Xinzhe Luo , Sihan Wang , Xiahai Zhuang

Multi-modality is widely used in medical imaging, because it can provide multiinformation about a target (tumor, organ or tissue). Segmentation using multimodality consists of fusing multi-information to improve the segmentation. Recently,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Stéphane Canu

Myocardial pathology segmentation (MyoPS) is critical for the risk stratification and treatment planning of myocardial infarction (MI). Multi-sequence cardiac magnetic resonance (MS-CMR) images can provide valuable information. For…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Wangbin Ding , Lei Li , Junyi Qiu , Sihan Wang , Liqin Huang , Yinyin Chen , Shan Yang , Xiahai Zhuang

Large prospective epidemiological studies acquire cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images for pre-symptomatic populations and follow these over time. To support this approach, fully automatic large-scale 3D analysis is essential. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Rahman Attar , Marco Pereanez , Christopher Bowles , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Steffen E. Petersen , Alejandro F. Frangi

In cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, fully-automatic segmentation of the heart enables precise structural and functional measurements to be taken, e.g. from short-axis MR images of the left-ventricle. In this work we propose a recurrent…

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Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative…

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