Knowledge-based tensor anisotropic diffusion of cardiac magnetic resonance images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-101

  Sanchez Ortiz, Gerardo I ^a,b   Rueckert, Daniel ^a,c   Burger, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Geometry driven diffusion; Left ventricle modelling; Phase sensitive MR; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOTION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0033084599     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(99)80018-8     Document Type: Article

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