Automatic assessment of cardiac function from short-axis MRI: Procedure and clinical evaluation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 365-376

  Nachtomy, Ehud ^e   Cooperstein, Rafael ^a   Vaturi, Mordechy ^b   Bosak, Elyakim ^c   Vered, Zvi ^a   Akselrod, Solange ^d  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Heart Institute   (Palestine)

^c Elscint Ltd   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Cardiac function; Contour extraction; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 0031878167     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)80019-2     Document Type: Article

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