Extraction of left-ventricular chamber from 3-D CT images of the heart

W E Higgins; N Chung; E L Ritman

doi:10.1109/42.61754

Extraction of left-ventricular chamber from 3-D CT images of the heart

IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 1990;9(4):384-95. doi: 10.1109/42.61754.

Authors

W E Higgins¹, N Chung, E L Ritman

Affiliation

¹ Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA.

PMID: 18222786
DOI: 10.1109/42.61754

Abstract

A semiautomatic method is described for extracting the volume and shape of the left ventricular (LV) chamber from a dynamic spatial reconstructor cardiac volume. For a given volume, the operator first performs some simple manual edits. Then, an automated stage, which incorporates concepts from 3-D mathematical morphology and technology, the maximum-homogeneity filter, and an adaptive 3-D thresholder, extracts the LV chamber. The method gives more consistent measurements and demands considerably less operator time than manual slice-editing.