Towards automatic full heart segmentation in computed-tomography images

O. Ecabert, J. Peters, C. Lorenz, J. von Berg, M. Vembar, K. Subramanyan, G. Lavi, J. Weese
2005 Computers in Cardiology, 2005  
We present a robust, fast and fully automatic approach enabling the segmentation of the main anatomical structures of the heart in CT images. The proposed method is based on the adaptation of a 3D triangulated mesh to new unknown images exploiting simultaneously knowledge of organ shape and typical gray level appearance in images, both learned from a training database made of 28 data sets. The described approach was tested on more than 50 volume images at different cardiac phases. Visual
more » ... ion by experts reveals that the proposed method is overall robust and succeeds in segmenting the heart up to minor interactive local corrections.
doi:10.1109/cic.2005.1588077 fatcat:6dfp5dd26jhnxjfgwok24utpna