MIV: A Cardiac Image Visualizer
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In this paper, we present a Medical Image Visualizer (MIV) targeting cardiac SPECT images. The visualizer is built fully on open source image processing and visualization software. The main features of the visualizer are: a semiautomatic procedure for segmenting challenging cardiac images and an implementation of the polar map visualization (Bull’s eye diagram) that follows recent recommendations from the American Heart Association (AHA). The features mentioned above and the architecture design of the software make MIV a valuable research tool for the analysis of cardiac SPECT studies. Keywords-computer vision; image processing; polar map;
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تاریخ انتشار 2009