Echocardiographic image sequence segmentation by multiscale directional snake

Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 26-29

  Cheng, Jierong ^a   Foo, Say Wei ^a   Krishnan, Shankar M ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Echocardiographic images; Morphological operation; Snake

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SNAKE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 21544483228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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