Biomedical Image Processing / Medical Image Processing
Gelareh Valizadeh; Farshid Babapour Mofrad; Ahmad Shalbaf
Volume 14, Issue 4 , February 2021, , Pages 291-306
Abstract
Statistical Shape Modeling is widely used in many applications of cardiac images. Many efforts have been done to generate optimized Statistical Shape Models (SSMs). In this paper, we evaluated three different 3D endocardial models constructed using different alignment procedures. From 20 healthy CMR ...
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Statistical Shape Modeling is widely used in many applications of cardiac images. Many efforts have been done to generate optimized Statistical Shape Models (SSMs). In this paper, we evaluated three different 3D endocardial models constructed using different alignment procedures. From 20 healthy CMR datasets, three different endocardial models are generated by varying the surface alignment methods means based on the Center of the Apex (CoA), the Center of Mass (CoM), and the Center of the Basal (CoB) of the endocardium. Then Principle Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to show the maximum variation of the SSMs. The constructed statistical models are compared by measuring the compactness, generalization ability, and specificity. Besides, the performance of each model in the 3D endocardial segmentation application using the Active Shape Model (ASM) technique is evaluated by the Hausdorff Distance (HD) criterion. The results indicate that the CoB-based model is less compact than the CoA-based model but more compact than the CoM-based model. Although for a constant number of modes the reconstruction error is approximately the same for all models, surface alignment based on CoB leads to generate a more specific model than the others. The resulted HDs show that the CoB alignment strategy produces the ASM which has the best performance in 3D endocardial segmentation among the other models. The computed results from the quantitative analysis demonstrate that varying alignment strategies affect the quality of the constructed SSM. It is obvious that the specificity and segmentation accuracy of the proposed CoB-based model outperforms the classical CoM-based approach.
Biological Computer Modeling / Biological Computer Simulation
Gelare Valizadeh; Fateme Fatemi; Mahmoud Shahabadi; Mohammad Ali Oghabian; Majid Pouladian
Volume 8, Issue 2 , June 2014, , Pages 125-133
Abstract
MTDDS is an innovative treatment modality to completely tumor remission with no negative side effect. In this method functionalize magnetic nanoparticles are designed as the drug carrier to get the specific target in the body. Anticancer agents are bounded to magnetite nanoparticles with biocompatible ...
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MTDDS is an innovative treatment modality to completely tumor remission with no negative side effect. In this method functionalize magnetic nanoparticles are designed as the drug carrier to get the specific target in the body. Anticancer agents are bounded to magnetite nanoparticles with biocompatible starch coating suspended in the fluid. Now if they are injected intra-arterially near the target volume, they would be trapped at the target region via a local applied magnetic field with the high gradient near the target site. In this paper we have evaluated some nanoparticle trajectories with different size in order to evaluate the effect of the size on the efficiency of the magnetic drug targeting system.
