Fusion of short-axis and long-axis cardiac MR images

Author

Goshtasby, A. Ardershir ; Turner, David A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Russ Eng. Co., Dayton, OH, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

21-22 Jun 1996

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

211

Abstract

A method is introduced for fusing the short-axis and long-axis cardiac MR images into an isotropic volume image. A volume image obtained by this method contains the left ventricular (LV) cavity in one piece, facilitating measurement of its shape and volume. The main goal in this image fusion is to reconstruct the LV cavity in volume form and in high resolution. The accuracy of the method is measured using a synthetic image. Examples of image fusion using real images are also presented

Keywords

biomedical NMR; cardiology; image reconstruction; image resolution; image sequences; medical image processing; shape measurement; volume measurement; LV cavity; accuracy; high resolution; image fusion; isotropic volume image; left ventricular cavity; long-axis cardiac MR images; real images; shape; short-axis cardiac MR images; synthetic image; volume; Computer science; Ellipsoids; Image fusion; Image reconstruction; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Phase measurement; Radiology; Shape measurement; Volume measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, 1996., Proceedings of the Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7368-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMBIA.1996.534072

Filename

534072