Documentation/Nightly/Modules/AutomatedLASegmentation

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Introduction and Acknowledgements

Author: Salma Bengali, CARMA Center, University of Utah Contributors: Gopal Veni, Alan Morris, Josh Cates, Rob MacLeod, Ross Whitaker, CARMA Center, University of Utah Contact: Salma Bengali: <email>salma.bengali@carma.utah.edu</email>

The University of Utah Health Sciences

Module Description

This module is licensed for research purposes only. The module automatically segments the left atrium from a cardiac LGE-MRI image volume. The input to the module is a cardiac LGE-MRI image, a smoothness parameter and model data. The model is arbitrarily selected and can be changed to check if it improves the segmentation output. Model data to run this module can be downloaded from the Slicer Midas repository.

Use Cases

This module can be used to automatically segment the Left Atrium from a cardiac LGE-MRI image.

The segmented left atrium with model displayed

Tutorials

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Panels and their use

• Input Image : Select the cardiac LGE-MRI image volume
• Smoothness Parameter : Select the smoothness parameter value
• Model Number: Select the model number
• Output Endo Label Image: Create the output endo label image
• Output Epi Label Image: Create the output epi label image
• Model Data Directory: Select the directory of the input model
• Epi Mesh: Create the output epi mesh
• Endo Mesh: Create the output endo mesh
• Center of Left Atrium: Select the approximate center of the left atrium by placing a fiducial

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References

• Boykov, Yuri, and Vladimir Kolmogorov. "An experimental comparison of min-cut/max-flow algorithms for energy minimization in vision." Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on 26, no. 9 (2004): 1124-1137.

Information for Developers

The source code for this module can be found at the CARMA GitHub repository.