Application of automatic boundary detection for computerized quantitative analysis of left ventricular regional wall motion by two- dimensional echocardiography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 177-182

  Tsai, Liang Miin ^a,b   Chen, Tzu Pei ^a   Chen, Tain Song ^a   Chen, Jyh Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; LEFT VENTRICLE; REGIONAL WALL MOTION; WALL MOTION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031103367     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1997.16.3.177     Document Type: Article

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