Combining high-performance computing and networking for advanced 3-D cardiac imaging

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-67

  Santarelli, Maria F ^a   Positano, Vincenzo ^a   Landini, Luigi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CARDIAC IMAGING; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; HIGH SPEED NETWORKING; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VOLUME RENDERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VOLUME; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELECONSULTATION;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIAC VOLUME; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REMOTE CONSULTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033624795     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.826860     Document Type: Article

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