Recovery of the 3-D Shape of the Left Ventricle from Echocardiographic Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 301-317

  Coppini, Giuseppe ^a   Poli, Riccardo ^b,c   Valli, Guido ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; SHAPE RECOVERY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDGE DETECTION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0029327263     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.387712     Document Type: Article

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