Real-time multi-model tracking of myocardium in echocardiography using robust information fusion

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3217, Issue 1 PART 2, 2004, Pages 777-785

  Georgescu, Bogdan ^a   Zhou, Xiang Sean ^a   Comaniciu, Dorin ^a   Rao, Bharat ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; COMPUTATION THEORY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INFORMATION FUSION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MOTION ANALYSIS;

LEFT VENTRICLE (LV); MULTI-MODEL TRACKING; MYOCARDIAL WALL MOTION; OPTICAL FLOW METHODS; APPEARANCE MODELS; MATCHING PROCESS; ROBUST INFORMATION FUSION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; UNCERTAINTY HANDLING; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 20344372408     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_95     Document Type: Conference Paper

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