NDLI: Immune Cells Detection of the In Vivo Rejecting Heart in USPIO-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Author	Hsun-Hsien Chang Moura, J.M.F. Wu, Y.L. Chien Ho
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (Hsun-Hsien Chang; Moura, J.M.F.)
Abstract	Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is useful to study the infiltration of immune cells, in particular macrophages. Contrast agents, for example ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) particles, administered intravenously into the blood stream will be engulfed by macrophages circulating in the circulation system. When a transplanted heart rejects, macrophages and other immune cells will infiltrate the rejecting tissue. Imaged by $T_{2}*$ weighted MRI, USPIO-labeled macrophages will display dark pixel intensities. Detecting the presence of USPIO particles in the images facilitates the study of heart rejection. We cast the problem of detecting the presence of USPIO-labeled myocardium in the framework of spectral graph theory, and treat our decision function as a level set function on the image. The pixels with positive level set values correspond to the presence of immune cells, and negative to the absence. When the image is modeled by a graph, the spectral analysis of the graph Laplacian provides a basis to represent the level set function. We develop from the Cheeger constant of the graph an objective functional of the level set function. The minimization of the objective leads to the optimal level set function. Experimental results suggest the feasibility of our approach in the study of rejecting hearts
Sponsorship	IEEE EMB
Starting Page	942
Ending Page	945
File Size	472678
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424400325
ISSN	1557170X
DOI	10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259443
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-08-30
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	In vivo Heart Magnetic resonance imaging Level set Iron Blood Streaming media Displays Pixel Myocardium
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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