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