Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/MMBIA.1996.534072
