Evaluation of valvular regurgitation severity using digital acquisition of echocardiographic images

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 241-246

  Shah, Dipan J ^a,b   DiLuzio, Silvia ^a,b   Ambardekar, Amrut V ^a,b   Smulevitz, Beverly ^a,b   Smith, Gwenlyn L ^a,b   Nagaraj, Ashwin ^a,b   Hamilton, Andrew J ^a,b   McPherson, David D ^a,b   Rigolin, Vera H ^a,b  

^a Division of Cardiology ^*

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIDEORECORDING; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036515626     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.119587     Document Type: Article

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