Space-time segmentation using level set active contours applied to myocardial gated SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 643-659

  Debreuve, Éric ^b,c,d   Barlaud, Michel ^a,b   Aubert, Gilles ^a,e   Laurette, Ivan ^a,c   Darcourt, Jacques ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

3 D gated SPECT sequence; Active contour; Geometrical constraint; Space time segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPACE-TIME SEGMENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GATED IMAGING; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035384873     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.932748     Document Type: Article

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