Segmentation and tracking in echocardiographic sequences: Active contours guided by optical flow estimates

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 274-284

  Mikic, Ivana ^a   Krucinski, Slawomir ^a   Thomas, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Boundary detection; Optical flow; Snakes; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY; NON-NASA CENTER; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICS;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL FLOWS;

FAST MOVING OBJECT TRACKING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032034224     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.700739     Document Type: Article

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