Semi-automatic segmentation of the endocardial boundary in intracardiac echocardiographic images

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1911-1913

  Gao, Y ^a   Gao, S ^a   Ding, C ^b   Rao, L ^b   Khoury, Dirar S ^b,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Imaging; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL MAPPING; ENDOCARDIAL BOUNDARY; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (ICE); LEFT VENTRICLE (LV);

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 11144332083     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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