Segmentation and visualization of left ventricle in MR cardiac images

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Shin, Il Hong ^a   Kwon, Min Jeong ^a   Chung, Sung Taek ^b   Park, HyunWook ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRADIENT METHODS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

CARDIAC IMAGES; CROSS PROFILE CORRELATION MODEL; ENDOCARDIAL CONTOURS; EPICARDIAL CONTOURS; GENERALIZED GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; INITIAL CONTOUR PREDICTION; LEFT VENTRICLE SEGMENTATION; LEFT VENTRICLE VISUALIZATION; MIXED INTERPOLATION MODEL; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 18744425854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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