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Area of Science:

Nuclear medicine
Medical imaging analysis
Cardiovascular imaging

Background:

Accurate segmentation of the myocardium is crucial for assessing cardiac function.
Existing methods for single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) image segmentation face challenges with gated and non-gated data.
Precise measurement of myocardial wall thickness and blood pool volume is often difficult.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a new segmentation approach for the myocardium in both gated and non-gated perfusion SPECT images.
To enable explicit control over myocardial wall thickness.
To allow for the determination of blood pool and myocardium volumes.

Main Methods:

Representing epicardium and endocardium using separate signed distance functions.
Coupling these functions with a soft constraint to control wall thickness.
Explicitly modeling the basal plane to determine volumes.
Incorporating prior shape information via kernel density estimation in a principal component analysis (PCA) subspace.
Utilizing 4-dimensional embedding functions to account for temporal information.

Main Results:

The proposed method allows for accurate segmentation of the myocardium in gated and non-gated SPECT images.
Explicit control over myocardial wall thickness is achieved.
Accurate determination of blood pool and myocardium volumes is demonstrated.
Integration of prior shape information improves segmentation robustness.

Conclusions:

The novel segmentation approach offers improved accuracy and control for myocardial analysis in SPECT imaging.
This method enhances the ability to quantify cardiac volumes and wall thickness.
The technique effectively leverages temporal and shape information for robust segmentation.