Applying improved fast marching method to endocardial boundary detection in echocardiographic images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2777-2784

  Yan, JiaYong ^a   Zhuang, TianGe ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Echocardiographic images; Fast marching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BOUNDARY DETECTION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041328273     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00121-1     Document Type: Article

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