Cardiac modeling using Active Appearance Models and morphological operators

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5744, Issue I, 2005, Pages 279-289

  Pfeifer, Bernhard ^a   Hanser, Friedrich ^a   Seger, Michael ^a   Hintermüller, Christoph ^a   Modre Osprian, Robert ^a   Fischer, Gerald ^a   Mühlthaler, Hannes ^b   Trieb, Thomas ^b   Tilg, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

AAM; Cardiac Imaging; Model Extraction; Morphological Image Processing; Reconstruction; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; CARDIOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASES;

ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS (AAM); CARDIAC IMAGING; MODEL EXTRACTION; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23244444805     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.591903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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