Automatic exclusion of papillary muscles and trabeculae from blood volume measurements in cine cardiac magnetic resonance images

Gilion L.T.F. Hautvast, M. Breeuwer, S. Lobregt, F.A. Gerritsen

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Abstract

Short axis cine cardiac magnetic resonance is used for measuring ventricular blood volumes. Papillary muscles and trabeculae should be excluded from these volumes, despite being included by delineations that allow measurements of wall thickness. We have developed and evaluated three methods that automatically exclude the papillary muscles and trabeculae from the blood volume by classifying the interior grey values of the endocardial contours to estimate corrected areas for summation with Simpson's Rule. Classification is performed using thresholding, hard clipping and error-function clipping, respectively. An evaluation of our methods on 69 clinical data sets showed that our methods provide significantly different results for the end diastolic volume, the end systolic volume, the stroke volume and the ejection fraction, with respect to conventional methods. Furthermore, the difference between our methods was found to be not significant.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 Computers in Cardiology, CIC
Place of PublicationPiscataway
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages57-60
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)1424425328, 9781424425327
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2006
Event2006 Computers in Cardiology, CIC - Valencia, Spain
Duration: 17 Sept 200620 Sept 2006

Conference

Conference2006 Computers in Cardiology, CIC
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period17/09/0620/09/06

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