Endocardial boundary detection using a neural network

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 1057-1068

  Tsai, Ching Tsorng ^a   Sun, Yung Nien ^a   Chung, Pau Choo ^a   Lee, Jiann Shu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automatic endocardial border segmentation; Echocardiogram; Hopfield network; Neural network; Parallel border detection; Ultrasonic image

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC ENDOCARDIAL BORDER SEGMENTATION; HOPFIELD NETWORK; PARALLEL BORDER DETECTION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0027623734     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(93)90007-J     Document Type: Article

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