De-noising of left ventricular myocardial borders in magnetic resonance images

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 649-657

  Fu, J C ^c   Chai, J W ^a   Wong, S T C ^b   Deng, J J ^c   Yeh, J Y ^c  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Border detection; Left ventricular magnetic resonance images; Median filter; Snake; Wavelet adaptive filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; DIASTOLE; DYNAMICS; ENDOCARDIUM; EVALUATION; FILTER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SNAKE; SYSTOLE;

ALGORITHMS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

SERPENTES;

EID: 18744395747     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00592-1     Document Type: Article

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