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Delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging is an effective technique for imaging left atrial (LA) scars both pre- and post- radio-frequency ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. Existing techniques for LA scar segmentation require expert manual interaction, making them tedious and prone to high observer variability. In this paper, a novel automatic segmentation algorithm for segmenting LA scar was validated using digital phantoms and clinical data from 11 patients. The performance of the approach was compared to the two leading semi-automatic techniques and the ground truth of manual segmentations by 2 expert observers. The novel approach was shown to be accurate in terms of Dice coefficient, robust to typical image intensity variability, and much faster in terms of execution time.
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Karim, R. et al. (2012). Validation of a Novel Method for the Automatic Segmentation of Left Atrial Scar from Delayed-Enhancement Magnetic Resonance. In: Camara, O., Konukoglu, E., Pop, M., Rhode, K., Sermesant, M., Young, A. (eds) Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart. Imaging and Modelling Challenges. STACOM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28326-0_26
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