International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 983794, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/983794
Research Article

Segmentation of Myocardial Boundaries in Tagged Cardiac MRI Using Active Contours: A Gradient-Based Approach Integrating Texture Analysis

Aymeric Histace,1 Bogdan Matuszewski,2 and Yan Zhang2

1Equipe Traitement de l'Information et Système (ETIS), UMR CNRS 8051, 6 avenue du Ponceau, F-95000 Cergy, France
2Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing Research Centre (ADSIP), University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK

Received 3 February 2009; Accepted 24 March 2009

Academic Editor: Jie Tian

Copyright © 2009 Aymeric Histace et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite this Article

Aymeric Histace, Bogdan Matuszewski, and Yan Zhang, “Segmentation of Myocardial Boundaries in Tagged Cardiac MRI Using Active Contours: A Gradient-Based Approach Integrating Texture Analysis,” International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2009, Article ID 983794, 8 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/983794