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. 2011 Sep;37(9):1409-20.
doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.005. Epub 2011 Jun 16.

Correlation based 3-D segmentation of the left ventricle in pediatric echocardiographic images using radio-frequency data

Maartje M Nillesen  1 , Richard G P Lopata, H J Huisman, Johan M Thijssen, Livia Kapusta, Chris L de Korte
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Correlation based 3-D segmentation of the left ventricle in pediatric echocardiographic images using radio-frequency data

Maartje M Nillesen et al. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2011 Sep.

Abstract

Clinical diagnosis of heart disease might be substantially supported by automated segmentation of the endocardial surface in three-dimensional (3-D) echographic images. Because of the poor echogenicity contrast between blood and myocardial tissue in some regions and the inherent speckle noise, automated analysis of these images is challenging. A priori knowledge on the shape of the heart cannot always be relied on, e.g., in children with congenital heart disease, segmentation should be based on the echo features solely. The objective of this study was to investigate the merit of using temporal cross-correlation of radio-frequency (RF) data for automated segmentation of 3-D echocardiographic images. Maximum temporal cross-correlation (MCC) values were determined locally from the RF-data using an iterative 3-D technique. MCC values as well as a combination of MCC values and adaptive filtered, demodulated RF-data were used as an additional, external force in a deformable model approach to segment the endocardial surface and were tested against manually segmented surfaces. Results on 3-D full volume images (Philips, iE33) of 10 healthy children demonstrate that MCC values derived from the RF signal yield a useful parameter to distinguish between blood and myocardium in regions with low echogenicity contrast and incorporation of MCC improves the segmentation results significantly. Further investigation of the MCC over the whole cardiac cycle is required to exploit the full benefit of it for automated segmentation.

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