title: Semi-automatic segmentation of the endocardial boundary in intracardiac echocardiographic images.
abstract: Intracardiac echocardiograpby (ICE) has been employed in guiding clinical interventional procedures. ICE could also be useful for 3-D anatomical and functional imaging of the heart. In this regard, we developed and tested a method to semi-automatically determine the endocardial boundary in multiple tomographic ICE images. Compared to manual segmentation, we found that semi-automatic segmentation of the endocardial boundary in ICE images was feasible and enabled accurate and efficient reconstruction of 3-D geometry of the heart cavity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Khoury