Automatic Detection of Myocardial Boundaries in MR Cardio Perfusion Images

Cardiovascular diseases often result in reduced blood perfusion of the myocardium (MC). Recent advances in MR allow fast recordingof contrast enhanced myocardial perfusion scans. For perfusion analysis the myocardial boundaries must be traced. Currently this is done manually. In this paper a method for automatic detection of the myocardial boundaries is proposed