Nonlocal active contours

M Jung, G Peyré, LD Cohen - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2012 - SIAM
This article introduces a novel class of active contour models for image segmentation. It
makes use of nonlocal comparisons between pairs of patches within each region to be …

Automatic delineation of the myocardial wall from CT images via shape segmentation and variational region growing

L Zhu, Y Gao, V Appia, A Yezzi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prognosis and diagnosis of cardiac diseases frequently require quantitative evaluation of
the ventricle volume, mass, and ejection fraction. The delineation of the myocardial wall is …

Integrated 3D anatomical model for automatic myocardial segmentation in cardiac CT imagery

N Dahiya, A Yezzi, M Piccinelli… - Computer Methods in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Segmentation of epicardial and endocardial boundaries is a critical step in diagnosing
cardiovascular function in heart patients. The manual tracing of organ contours in computed …

A complete system for automatic extraction of left ventricular myocardium from CT images using shape segmentation and contour evolution

L Zhu, Y Gao, V Appia, A Yezzi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The left ventricular myocardium plays a key role in the entire circulation system and an
automatic delineation of the myocardium is a prerequisite for most of the subsequent …

Validation of automated biventricular myocardial segmentation from coronary computed tomographic angiography for multimodality image fusion

M Piccinelli, N Dahiya, RD Folks, A Yezzi, EV Garcia - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Purpose Image fusion strategies of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and coronary CT
angiography (CCTA) have shown increased diagnostic power. However, their clinical …

Localized principal component analysis based curve evolution: A divide and conquer approach

V Appia, B Ganapathy, A Yezzi… - … Conference on Computer …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel localized principal component analysis (PCA) based curve evolution
approach which evolves the segmenting curve semi-locally within various target regions …

Automatic alignment of myocardial perfusion images with contrast-enhanced cardiac computed tomography

TL Faber, CA Santana, M Piccinelli… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Explicit fusion of perfusion data from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or Single Photon
Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) with coronary artery anatomy from Computed …

Automatic detection of left and right ventricles from CTA enables efficient alignment of anatomy with myocardial perfusion data

M Piccinelli, TL Faber, CD Arepalli, V Appia… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Accurate alignment between cardiac CT angiographic studies (CTA) and
nuclear perfusion images is crucial for improved diagnosis of coronary artery disease. This …

Integrated 3d anatomical model for automatic myocardial segmentation in cardiac ct imagery

N Dahiya, A Yezzi, M Piccinelli, E Garcia - VipIMAGE 2017: Proceedings of …, 2018 - Springer
Segmentation of epicardial and endocardial boundaries is a critical step in diagnosing
cardiovascular function in heart patients. The manual tracing of organ contours in Computed …

Dependently coupled principal component analysis for bivariate inversion problems

N Dahiya, Y Fan, S Bignardi… - … Conference on Pattern …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a widely used technique for dimensionality reduction
in various problem domains, including data compression, image processing, visualization …