Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
507-04-009 ISMRM Abstract

Spatio-Temporal Segmentation and Motion Analysis of Uterine Layers in Cine MRI Using Unet-LSTM and FlowNet-Lite

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Smiti Tripathy 1,2, Milauni Desai1,2, Lieselotte Kratzsch2, Michael Uder2, Matthias May2, Jana Hutter1,2,3,4
1Smart Imaging Lab, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
2Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
3Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
4School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Smiti Tripathy

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