2014 Project Week:CardiacCongenitalSegmentation

From NAMIC Wiki
Revision as of 02:05, 5 January 2014 by Dpace (talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search
Home < 2014 Project Week:CardiacCongenitalSegmentation

Key Investigators

Danielle Pace, MIT

Polina Golland, MIT

Project Description

Objective

  • Develop a semi-automatic segmentation algorithm for cardiac MR images of patients with congenital heart defects.
  • Goal is to build a surface model showing the endocardial and epicardial boundaries, for surgical planning.
  • Challenges:
    • Very large inter-subject variability due to heart defects
    • Intensity inhomogeneities within myocardium and blood pool
    • Similar intensity distributions within adjacent tissues (e.g. liver, chest muscle)

Approach, Plan

  • Try existing open-source tools for segmentation and registration on the five datasets that we have so far.
  • See where these methods fail, to focus our efforts for developing algorithms for segmenting hearts with congenital defects.

Progress