Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body produces defective hemoglobin. One of the important processes to reduce the complication of major β-thalassemia is blood transfusion that leads to elevated ferritin levels in the blood. Man...
Background Standardized manual region of interest (ROI) sampling strategies for hepatic MRI steatosis and iron quantification are time consuming, with variable results. Purpose To evaluate the performance of automatic MRI whole-liver segmentation (WL...
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI
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BACKGROUND: MRI represents the most established liver iron content (LIC) evaluation approach by estimation of liver T2* value, but it is dependent on the choice of the measurement region and the software used for image analysis.
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI
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BACKGROUND: The T2* value of interventricular septum is routinely reported for grading myocardial iron load in thalassemia major, and automatic segmentation of septum could shorten analysis time and reduce interobserver variability.