Critical appraisal of left ventricular function assessment by the automated border detection method on echocardiography. Is it good enough?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-199

  Sapra, Rakesh ^a   Singh, Balbir ^a   Thatai, Deepak ^a   Prabhakaran, D ^a   Malhotra, Arun ^a   Manchanda, Subhash C ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Automated border detection; Echocardiography; Left ventricular ejection fraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032128121     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(98)00111-9     Document Type: Article

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