Automated identification and measurement of objects via populations of medial primitives, with application to real time 3D echocardiography

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1613, Issue , 1999, Pages 84-97

  Stetten, George D ^a,b   Pizer, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; COMPLEX SHAPES; IMAGE SPACE; LEFT VENTRICLES; MITRAL VALVES; REAL-TIME 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ROBUST MODELING; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 22644449713     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48714-x_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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