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3D Regularisation and Segmentation of Factor Volumes to Process PET H215O Myocardial Perfusion Studies
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13. 3D Regularisation and Segmentation of Factor Volumes to Process PET H 2
15O Myocardial Perfusion Studies
Frédérique Frouin6 , Paté Boubacar6, Vincent Frouin7, Alain De Cesare6, Andrew Todd-Pokropek6, 8, Pascal Merlet9 and Alain Herment6
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U494 INSERM CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, F-75634 Paris, cedex 13, France |
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Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, 4 place du Général Leclerc, F-91400 Orsay, France |
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Departement of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College of London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London, UK |
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Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hôpital Henri Mondor, F-94000 Créteil, France |
Abstract
A 3D image processing method to increase reproducibility in the handling of PET myocardial perfusion studies is proposed.
It is basedon the 3D regularization of factor volumes, which are estimated by FAMIS (Factor Analysis of Medical Image Sequences).
The resulting regularized factor volumes correspond to right and left cavities and to perfused tissues. They are then submitted
to a C-means classification, looking for 4 clusters. Some rules of connectivity are applied to the resulting clusters to achieve
the segmentation of heart cavities and myocardium. Thereafter, kinetics in the left ventricle and in the myocardium can be
computed from the previously determined volumes of interest, and myocardial blood flow (MBF) is estimated by a conventional
compartmental analysis.
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