Entropy analysis for determining systolic and diastolic cycles in heart MR Imaging.

Magnetic resonance imaging is a non-invasive technique that allows the medical diagnostic via clinical images. MRI has been employed to study the cardiac function during the last 20 years. There are different techniques in clinical cardiac MR that allow studying the heart [1]. These techniques acquire several images in a short acquisition time and are repeated sequentially to display the heart functionally. The main objective of this research is to analyze the acquired images, which have been obtained with a standard heart acquisition sequence, with the computation of the entropy of the image to detect cardiac cycles. Images of the heart were segmented and processed to find the systolic and diastolic cycles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]