Myocardial borders segmentation from cine MR images using bidirectional coupled parametric deformable models

Abstract

The proposed segmentation approach demonstrated superior performance over other methods. Specifically, the comparative results on the publicly available MICCAI 2009 Cardiac MR Left Ventricle Segmentation database documented superior performance of the proposed approach over published methods. Additionally, the high accuracy of our segmentation approach leads to accurate estimation of the global performance indexes, as evidenced by the Bland-Altman analyses of the end-systolic volume (ESV), end-diastolic volume (EDV), and the ejection fraction (EF) ratio.