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3-D Surface Rendering of Myocardial SPECT Images Segmented by Level Set Technique

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SPECT(single photon emission computed tomography) myocardial imaging is a diagnosis technique that images the region of interest and examines any change induced by disease using a computer after injects intravenously a radiopharmaceutical drug emitting gamma ray and the drug has dispersed evenly in the heart . Myocardial perfusion imaging, which contains functional information, is useful for non–invasive diagnosis of myocardial disease but noises caused by physical factors and low resolution give difficulty in reading the images. In order to help reading myocardial images, this study proposed a method that segments myocardial images and reconstructs the segmented region into a 3D image. To resolve difficulty in reading, we segmented the left ventricle, the region of interest, using a level set and modeled the segmented region into a 3D image.

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    Hwun-Jae Lee

  2. Department of Radiology, Nambu University, Gwangju, South Korea

    SangBock Lee

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Lee, HJ., Lee, S. 3-D Surface Rendering of Myocardial SPECT Images Segmented by Level Set Technique. J Med Syst 36, 1133–1137 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9575-z

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