Modeling and Representation of Human Hearts for Volumetric Measurement
This paper investigates automatic construction of a three-dimensional heart model from a set of medical images, represents it in a deformable shape, and uses it to perform volumetric measurements. This not only significantly improves its reliability and accuracy but also makes it possible to derive...
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doaj-54f0f808117a490ca4d46bae50d2bc552020-11-25T00:12:09ZengHindawi LimitedComputational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine1748-670X1748-67182012-01-01201210.1155/2012/389463389463Modeling and Representation of Human Hearts for Volumetric MeasurementQiu Guan0Wanliang Wang1Guang Wu2College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, ChinaGuangxi Academy of Sciences, 98 Daling Road, Nanning 530007, ChinaThis paper investigates automatic construction of a three-dimensional heart model from a set of medical images, represents it in a deformable shape, and uses it to perform volumetric measurements. This not only significantly improves its reliability and accuracy but also makes it possible to derive valuable novel information, like various assessment and dynamic volumetric measurements. The method is based on a flexible model trained from hundreds of patient image sets by a genetic algorithm, which takes advantage of complete segmentation of the heart shape to form a geometrical heart model. For an image set of a new patient, an interpretation scheme is used to obtain its shape and evaluate some important parameters. Apart from automatic evaluation of traditional heart functions, some new information of cardiovascular diseases may be recognized from the volumetric analysis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/389463 |
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Modeling and Representation of Human Hearts for Volumetric Measurement |
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Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine |
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This paper investigates automatic construction of a three-dimensional heart model from a set of medical images, represents it in a deformable shape, and uses it to perform volumetric measurements. This not only significantly improves its reliability and accuracy but also makes it possible to derive valuable novel information, like various assessment and dynamic volumetric measurements. The method is based on a flexible model trained from hundreds of patient image sets by a genetic algorithm, which takes advantage of complete segmentation of the heart shape to form a geometrical heart model. For an image set of a new patient, an interpretation scheme is used to obtain its shape and evaluate some important parameters. Apart from automatic evaluation of traditional heart functions, some new information of cardiovascular diseases may be recognized from the volumetric analysis. |
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