3-D freehand echocardiography for automatic left ventricle reconstruction and analysis based on multiple acoustic windows

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1051-1058

  Ye, Xujiong ^a   Noble, J Alison ^a   Atkinson, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D LV reconstruction; Echocardiography; Ejection fractions; Endocardial boundary detection; Freehand ultrasound; Left ventricle (LV) volume; Surface fitting; Three dimensional (3 D) compounding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; SENSORS;

MULTIPLE ACOUSTIC WINDOWS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0036770497     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.804436     Document Type: Article

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