1. A novel method for viability assessment by cinematographic and late contrast enhanced MRI
- Author
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Henry J. Dargie, John E. Foster, Paul Cockshott, Thomas N. Martin, Bjoern A. Groenning, Alex Elliott, and Gang Gao
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Late enhancement ,Medical diagnostic ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,CONTRAST ENHANCED MRI ,business.industry ,medicine ,Image registration ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,Image processing ,Wall motion ,business ,Nuclear medicine ,Cardiac magnetic resonance - Abstract
Using cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, a combination of late contrast enhanced MR (ceMR) and cinematographic (CINE) images, a myocardial viability score can be derived. At present this score is produced by visual evaluation of wall motion abnormalities in combination with presence or absence of late hyper enhancement (LE) on ceMR. We set out to develop and validate image processing techniques derived from stereo vision capable of reducing the observer dependence and improving accuracy in the diagnosis of viable myocardium.
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- 2004