Auto segmentation of the left ventricle MR images

Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 991-999

  Chen, Qiang ^a   Zhou, Ze Ming ^a   Qu, Ying Ge ^b   Heng, Pheng Ann ^b   Xia, De Shen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Level set; MR images; Signed distance function; SVM

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AUTO SEGMENTATION; LEFT VENTRICLE; LEVEL SET METHOD; SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 21444443350     PISSN: 02544164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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