Title
Unbiased stratification of left ventricles.
Abstract
Image based quantitative stratification of the Left Ventricles (LV) across a population helps in unraveling the structure-function symbiosis of the heart. An unbiased, reference less grouping scheme that automatically determines the number of clusters and a physioanatomically relevant strategy that aligns the intra cluster LV shapes would enable the robust construction of pathology stratified cardiac atlas. This paper achieves this hitherto elusive stratification and alignment by adapting the conventional strategies routinely followed by clinicians. The individual LV shape models (N=127) are independently oriented to an "attitudinally consistent orientation" that captures the physioanatomic variations of the LV morphology. Affinity propagation technique based on the automatically identified inter-LV_landmark distances is used to group the LV shapes. The proposed algorithm is computationally efficient and, if the inter cluster variations are linked to pathology, could provide a clinically relevant cardiac atlas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85988-8_66
MICCAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
left ventricles,inter cluster variation,pathology stratified cardiac atlas,hitherto elusive stratification,lv morphology,unbiased stratification,intra cluster lv shape,relevant cardiac atlas,quantitative stratification,physioanatomically relevant strategy,individual lv shape model,stratification,affinity propagation,structure function
Population,Stratification (seeds),Left Ventricles,Affinity propagation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Image based,Artificial intelligence,Landmark
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
Pt 1
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.44
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajagopalan Srinivasan168379.21
K. S. Shriram262.39
Srikanth Suryanarayanan3123.93