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Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Using Active Shape Model

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Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice (IVIC 2009)

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In the quantification of myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS), numerous processes are involved. Automation is desired as it will considerably reduce the laboriousness of the underlying tasks. In this paper, we propose a segmentation scheme for the delineation of left ventricle (LV) using the Active Shape Models. Our scheme will reduce the labour-intensiveness in MPS quantification, while still allowing interactive guidance from the medical experts. The proposed scheme has been applied on clinical MPS tomograms in which it has successfully delineated the LV in 94% of the test data. In addition, it has also shown to be more suitable for LV segmentation than the rivaling Active Contour Model.

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  1. Center for Multimedia Security and Signal Processing, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, 63100, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

    Wooi-Haw Tan & Rosli Besar

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  1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Peter Robinson

  3. Communications and Signal Processing Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Maria Petrou

  4. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

    Patrick Olivier

  5. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, 3001, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Heiko Schröder

  6. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamkang University,, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

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Tan, WH., Besar, R. (2009). Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Using Active Shape Model. In: Badioze Zaman, H., Robinson, P., Petrou, M., Olivier, P., Schröder, H., Shih, T.K. (eds) Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice. IVIC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05036-7_5

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