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Myocardium extraction in positron emission tomography based on soft computing

✍ Scribed by F. Behloul; A. Boudraa; B.P.F. Lelieveldt; M. Janier; J.H.C Reiber

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 844 KB
Volume: 25
Category: Article
ISSN: 0895-6111
DOI: 10.1016/s0895-6111(00)00067-7

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This paper presents an efficient and accurate approach to myocardium extraction in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images based on a careful application of soft computing techniques. PET images present a noisy background, making the automatic myocardium extraction and uptake quantification a difficult task. In this work a Self Organized Radial Basis Function Network (SRBFN) is designed to focus on the myocardium in an iterative process until the total extraction of the myocardium from the noisy background is achieved. Fuzzy sets and fuzziness measures are used to compute the error of the network. The method was tested on a set of nine images of different patients and its effectiveness is illustrated in two patients showing tracer uptake defects.

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