Different regions identification in composite strain encoded (C-SENC) images using machine learning techniques

A.G. Motaal, N.F. Osman, N. El-Gayar

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Abstract

Different heart tissue identification is important for therapeutic decision-making in patients with myocardial infarction (MI), this provides physicians with a better clinical decision-making tool. Composite Strain Encoding (C-SENC) is an MRI acquisition technique that is used to acquire cardiac tissue viability and contractility images. It combines the use of blackblood delayed-enhancement (DE) imaging to identify the infracted (dead) tissue inside the heart muscle and the ability to image myocardial deformation from the strain-encoding (SENC) imaging technique. In this work, various machine learning techniques are applied to identify the different heart tissues and the background regions in the C-SENC images. The proposed methods are tested using numerical simulations of the heart C-SENC images and real images of patients. The results show that the applied techniques are able to identify the different components of the image with a high accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition : 4th IAPR TC3 Workshop, ANNPR 2010, Cairo, Egypt, April 11-13, 2010. Proceedings
EditorsF. Schwenker, N. El-Gayar
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages231-240
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-12158-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume5998
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

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