Finding the Mitral Annular Lines From 2-D + 1-D Precordial Echocardiogram Using Graph-Search Technique

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Ching, Yu Tai ^a   Chen, Shyh Jye ^b   Chang, Chew Liang ^a   Lin, Chih Yang ^a   Liu, Yu Hsian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Echocardiogram; Left ventricle; Mitral annular line; Optical flow; Shortest path algorithm; Signal adaptive maximum likelihood (SML) filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPH THEORY; OPTICAL FLOWS;

LEFT VENTRICLES; SHORTEST PATH ALGORITHM;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MITRAL VALVE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 1842483198     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.824739     Document Type: Article

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