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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2010 Jun 17;29(9):1676–1687. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2050595

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Flow chart for the mitral annulus segmentation algorithm designed for closed valves which locates the annulus by first finding the thin leaflet tissue and then finding where the thin tissue meets the thick tissue of the surrounding heart wall. Specific details for the respective processes can be found in the indicated sections.