A variational approach for the segmentation of the left ventricle in cardiac image analysis

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 345-362

  Paragios, Nikos ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Geodesic active regions; Gradient vector flow; Left ventricle; Level set methods; Medical image segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CARDIAC IMAGE ANALYSIS; GEODESIC ACTIVE REGION; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; LEFT VENTRICLE; LEVEL SET METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036891611     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020882509893     Document Type: Article

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