Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI with Moving Mesh Correspondences

Right Ventricular (RV) failure can have numerous aetiologies, which include pulmonary hypertension, cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction, congenital heart disease, and sepsis [1]. Although clinically evidenced with several studies [2,3], the importance of RV analysis was overlooked in the last decade. Andersen et al.[2] showed that up to 50% of all regional infarcts are RV related. Cor pulmonale, the enlargement of the RV due to pulmonary hypertension, is the third most common cause of cardiac dysfunction in patients over the age of 50 [3].

Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - February 11, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Michelle Noga, Ismail Ben Ayed, Pierre Boulanger Source Type: research