Left Ventricle Segmentation from Heart MDCT

  • Authors:
  • Samuel Silva;Beatriz Sousa Santos;Joaquim Madeira;Augusto Silva

  • Affiliations:
  • DETI / IEETA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal;DETI / IEETA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal;DETI / IEETA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal;DETI / IEETA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • IbPRIA '09 Proceedings of the 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A semi-automatic method for left ventricle segmentation from MDCT exams is presented. It was developed using ITK and custom modules integrated in the MeVisLab platform. A preliminary qualitative evaluation shows that the provided segmentation, without any tweaking or manual edition, is reasonably close to the ideal segmentation as judged by experienced radiology technicians.