Automated quantification of left ventricular function by the automated contour tracking method

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 313-318

  Sugioka, Kenichi ^a   Hozumi, Takeshi ^b   Yagi, Toshikazu ^c   Yamamuro, Atsushi ^c   Akasaka, Takashi ^c   Takeuchi, Kazuhide ^b   Homma, Shunichi ^a   Yoshida, Kiyoshi ^d   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Left ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOMATED CONTOUR TRACKING METHOD; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0038075183     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03036.x     Document Type: Article

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