Extracting endocardial borders from sequential echocardiographic images

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 116-121

  Choy, Marian M ^a   Jin, Jesse S ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNSW

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTOUR TRACKING; ECHOCARDIAL BORDERS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION (TI);

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; IMAGE QUALITY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 0031883152     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.646228     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Dias M and Leitaõ M: Wall position and thickness estimation from sequences of echocardiographic images. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 15:25-38, 1996.
2. Bosch J, Burken G, and Reiber J: Automatic frame-to-frame contour detection in echocardiograms using motion estimation. IEEE Comput Cardiol, 351-54, 1992.
3. Friedland N and Adam D: Automatic ventricular cavity boundary detection from sequential ultrasound images using simulated annealing. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 8:344-353, 1989.
4. Zhang L and Geiser E: An effective algorithm for extracting serial endocardial borders from 2-dimensional echocardiograms. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 31(6):441-447, 1984.
5. Marcus ML, Schelbert, Skorton, and Wolf: Cardiac Imaging: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease. W. B. Saunders Company, 3rd ed, pp. 383, 1991.
6. Taxt T, Lundervold A, and Angelsen B: Noise reduction and segmentation in time-varying ultrasound images. 10th Int Conf on Pattern Recognition, 591-596, 1990.
7. Vitale D, Lauria G, Pelaggi N, Gerundo G, Bordini C, et al: Optimal number of averaged frames for noise reduction of ultrasound images. Proc IEEE Comput Soc Conf on Comput Vision Pattern Recognition, 639-641, 1993.
8. Evans A and Nixon M: Biased motion-adaptive temporal filtering for speckle reduction in echocardiography. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 15:39-50, 1996.
9. Chalana V, Costa W, and Kim Y: Integrating region growing and edge detection using regularization. Proc SPIE: Medical Imaging, 2434:262-271, 1995.
10. Taine M, Herment A, Diebold B, and Péronneau P: Segmentation of cardiac and vascular ultrasound images with extension to border kinetics. Proc IEEE Ultrason Symp, 3:1773-1776, 1994.
11. Torp A, Olstad B, Schipper K, Frigstad S, and Oygarden K: Simultaneous tracking of endocard and epicard in ultrasonic contrast imaging. Proc IEEE Ultrason Symp, 3:1585-1588, 1994.
12. Fujimura K: Motion tracking of deformable objects by active contour models using multiscale dynamic programming. J Visual Commun Image Representation, 4:382-391, 1993.
13. Choy M and Jin J: Morphological image analysis of left-ventricular endocardial borders in 2d echocardiograms. Proc SPIE: Medical Imaging, 2710:852-864, 1996.
14. Chalana V, Linker D, Haynor D, and Kim Y: A multiple active contour model for cardiac boundary detection on echocardiographic sequences. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 15:290-298, 1996.
15. Pandian N and Vannan M: Evolving trends and future directions in echocardiography. Int J Card Imag, 9:81-92, 1993.