An Effective Algorithm for Extracting Serial Endocardial Borders from 2-Dimensional Echocardiograms

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-31, Issue 6, 1984, Pages 441-447

  Zhang, Liang Fu ^a   Geiser, Edward A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING - ENHANCEMENT;

ENDOCARDIAL BORDERS; ULTRASONIC M-MODE; ULTRASONIC PULSE-ECHO TECHNIQUES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0021286289     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1984.325359     Document Type: Article

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