Journal
MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 118-129Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.10.001
Keywords
Mitral valve; 3D echocardiography; Medial representation; Multi-atlas segmentation; Label fusion
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health from the NHLBI [HL063954, HL073021, HL103723, HL119010]
- American Heart Association [10PRE3510014]
- National Institutes of Health from the NIA [AG037376]
- Penn-Pfizer Alliance [10295]
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Comprehensive visual and quantitative analysis of in vivo human mitral valve morphology is central to the diagnosis and surgical treatment of mitral valve disease. Real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography (3D TEE) is a practical, highly informative imaging modality for examining the mitral valve in a clinical setting. To facilitate visual and quantitative 3D TEE image analysis, we describe a fully automated method for segmenting the mitral leaflets in 3D TEE image data. The algorithm integrates complementary probabilistic segmentation and shape modeling techniques (multi-atlas joint label fusion and deformable modeling with continuous medial representation) to automatically generate 3D geometric models of the mitral leaflets from 3D TEE image data. These models are unique in that they establish a shape-based coordinate system on the valves of different subjects and represent the leaflets volumetrically, as structures with locally varying thickness. In this work, expert image analysis is the gold standard for evaluating automatic segmentation. Without any user interaction, we demonstrate that the automatic segmentation method accurately captures patient-specific leaflet geometry at both systole and diastole in 3D TEE data acquired from a mixed population of subjects with normal valve morphology and mitral valve disease. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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