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Open Access
01-12-2016 | Oral presentation
CMR myocardial texture analysis tracks different etiologies of left ventricular hypertrophy
Authors:
Rebecca Schofield, Balaji Ganeshan, Rebecca Kozor, Arthur Nasis, Raymond Endozo, Ashley Groves, Charlotte Manisty, James C Moon
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2016
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Excerpt
Defining the underlying etiology of heart muscle disease is important. Tissue characterisation with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and the newer parametric mapping technologies aim to do this. Texture analysis (TA) is another tool that may help. Macroscopic heterogeneity in texture on diagnostic imaging, both at and beyond that appreciated by the human eye, are known to track microscopic histological characteristics in other branches of medicine (computed tomography, oncology). We hypothesised that TA could be 1. translated to CMR cine images and quantify and detect image signal heterogeneity, and 2. the measured signal would track underlying disease etiology. …
