Automated interpretation of cardiac scintigrams

J Richter, Anders Ericsson, Karl Åström, Fredrik Kahl, L Edenbrant

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an automated method for the segmentation of the heart in a 3-D cardiac scintigram. This is immediately useful for eliminating a manual step in a previous version of a decision support system. The automatic segmentation method uses a statistical 3D-model, inspired by Active Shape, which locates the base and apex automatically from a cardiac scintigram. Key features of this algorithm are that it can handle cases where there is no or very little activity in the apex and also if there axe additional parts of the heart where there is little activity. The algorithm has been tested on approximately 2000 cardiac scintigrams.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (Image Analysis, Proceedings)
PublisherSpringer
Pages565-570
Volume2749
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-40601-3
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Event13th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2003 - Halmstad, Sweden
Duration: 2003 Jun 292003 Jul 2

Publication series

Name
Volume2749
ISSN (Print)1611-3349
ISSN (Electronic)0302-9743

Conference

Conference13th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2003
Country/TerritorySweden
CityHalmstad
Period2003/06/292003/07/02

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Respiratory Medicine and Allergy
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disease

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