This paper presents a multi-atlas segmentation approach concerning the left atrium and pulmonary veins in pre-operative CT images in order to plan ablation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation. The segmentation procedure is composed of an atlas-based segmentation followed by a region-growing method. The atlas-based segmentation step exploits the a priori knowledge of existing structures to extract the inner region of the left atrium. The output of the atlas-based segmentation is then eroded to be used as seed volume in the region-growing procedure. This step adds new voxels according to a criterion which uses the intensity information of the input image. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.
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Sandoval, Z., Betancur, J., & Dillenseger, J. L. (2014). Multi-atlas-based segmentation of the left atrium and pulmonary veins. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8330 LNCS, pp. 24–30). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54268-8_3
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