In this paper different strategies for the construction of a statistical shape model of the left ventricle to be used for segmentation in cardiac magnetic resonance images are evaluated.

A high correlation was found in all cases, with better results when using the SSM models comprising more than one frame of the cardiac cycle.

Reference: Piazzese C, Carminati MC, Colombo A, Krause R, Potse M, Auricchio A, Weinert L, Tamborini G, Pepi M, Lang RM, Caiani EG. Segmentation of the left ventricular endocardium from magnetic resonance images by using different statistical shape models. J Electrocardiol 2016 [Epub ahead of print]

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