Automatic identification of papillary muscles in left-ventricular short-axis echocardiographic images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 460-470

  Karras, Thanos ^a   Wilson, David C ^a   Geiser, Edward A ^a   Conetta, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMATION; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; TISSUE;

LEFT VENTRICLE; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; SPATIAL PROCESSING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DIASTOLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030152494     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.488794     Document Type: Article

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