Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 48-58 , January 2008

Isolation of the left atrial surface from cardiac multi-detector CT images based on marker controlled watershed segmentation

  • Alessandro Cristoforetti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 0461882042.
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  • Luca Faes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
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  • Flavia Ravelli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
    • Istituto Trentino di Cultura-Irst, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
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  • Maurizio Centonze

      Affiliations

    • Radiology Division, S. Chiara Hospital, 38100 Trento, Italy
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  • Maurizio Del Greco

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Division, S. Chiara Hospital, 38100 Trento, Italy
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  • Renzo Antolini

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
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  • Giandomenico Nollo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
    • Istituto Trentino di Cultura-Irst, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy

Received 8 September 2006 ,Revised 28 December 2006 ,Accepted 5 January 2007.

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PII: S1350-4533(07)00026-4

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.01.003

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 48-58 , January 2008

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