Automatic Myocardial Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images by a saliency grouping

Automatic segmentation method of the myocardium in MRI in CHDs

This work aims to the automatic segmentation of the myocardium. The approach estimates the myocardium by an intensity characterization consisting in salient radial segments that are considered to be potential portions of the myocardium. Afterwards, the myocardium region is defined by maximizing the smoothness of the obtained boundary, in terms of intensity and distance between neighbor segments in the angular direction