Combinative multi-scale level set framework for echocardiographic image segmentation

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 529-537

  Lin, Ning ^a   Yu, Weichuan ^b   Duncan, James S ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiographic image; Multi scale level set framework; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142210308     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(03)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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