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Method and apparatus for cardiac analysis using four-dimensional connectivity and image dilation
Method and apparatus for cardiac analysis using four-dimensional connectivity and image dilation
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机译:使用四维连通性和图像扩张进行心脏分析的方法和设备
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An imaging system enables cardiac functioning within a particular cardiac chamber to be imaged. The system acquires imaging data that includes intensity values for four-dimensional voxels within a region of interest (ROI). A seed voxel is identified, and neighbor voxels to the seed voxel are also identified. The intensity values for each neighbor voxel are compared to a threshold to determine whether the voxel corresponds to blood or muscle tissue. For each neighbor voxel corresponding to blood, its neighbor voxels are identified and compared to the threshold, and this process is repeated until a pre-established spatial boundary is encountered or the number of new neighbor voxels indicates that processing is migrating into an adjacent cardiac chamber. At that point, the set of identified blood voxels represents a blood volume for the desired cardiac chamber. Voxels adjacent to the interior and exterior surface boundaries of the blood volume are added to the set. At that point, the set of voxels are counted into bins of cardiac phases, cardiac images for each phase are reconstructed, and parameters such as ejection fraction are calculated.
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