Direct delineation of myocardial infarction without contrast agents using a joint motion feature learning architecture

Direct delineation of myocardial infarction (MI) area without contrast agents highly impacts early patient management and therapy planning. In routine clinical practice, delayed enhancement (DE) - cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging can be considered as the current standard for the detection of infarction area because it uses gadolinium contrast agent to provide highly accurate delineation of MI area during the imaging process. (J örg Barkhausen et al., 2002; Ingkanisorn et al., 2004). However, this imaging process may be dangerous because the administration of gadolinium contrast agent is fatal to the patients with chronic end-stage kidney diseases.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - September 6, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Chenchu Xu, Lei Xu, Zhifan Gao, Shen Zhao, Heye Zhang, Yanping Zhang, Xiuquan Du, Shu Zhao, Dhanjoo Ghista, Huafeng Liu, Shuo Li Source Type: research