Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
468-03-003 ISMRM Abstract

A Comparative Study of Automatic Myocardial Segmentation Methods for Iron Overload Detection in Dark-Blood T2* MR images

Primary: Analysis Methods - Segmentation and Detection
Secondary: Cardiovascular - Myocardium
468-03-003 · Segmentation for Cardiac Applications · Tuesday, 12 May, 1:40 PM–2:35 PM · Digital Posters Row I
Keywords: Cardiac MRI Iron Overload Deep Learning Segmentation
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Ambra Checchetto 1, Amalia Lupi2, Giada Businaro1, Simone Perra1,3, Alessandro Giupponi1, Valentina Visani1, Alessia Pepe2, Marco Castellaro1
1Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
2Institute of Radiology, Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
3Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Presenting Author: Ambra Checchetto

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