Stopping rules for active contour segmentation of ultrasound cardiac images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue I, 2005, Pages 475-484

  Tao, Zhong ^a   Tagare, Hemant D ^a,b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; STOPPING RULES; ULTRASOUND CARDIAC IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARDIOLOGY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 23844512807     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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