Automatic cardiac MR image segmentation using edge detection by tissue classification in pixel neighborhoods

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 418-424

  Singleton, H Ross ^a,b   Pohost, Gerald M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

automation; ejection fraction; segmentation; volume

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; EJECTION FRACTION; INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS; LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS; MULTI-PHASE IMAGES; REGIONS OF INTEREST; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; VOLUME;

PIXELS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031028674     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370320     Document Type: Article

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