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

Table 2

Comparison between our quantification and two studies of the medical literature concerning the estimation of the radial displacements (expressed in millimeters) for healthy volunteers.

	Base	Median	Apex
[31] (12 patients)	5.9±0.4	6±0.3	4.65±0.2
[32] (31 patients)	5.0±1.3	4.3±1.1	4.2±1.6
Our estimation (10 patients)	5.7±0.5	4.9±0.7	4.3±0.9