Tracking of left ventricular long axis from real-time three-dimensional echocardiography using optical flow techniques

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 174-181

  Veronesi, F ^a,b   Corsi, C ^b   Caiani, Enrico G ^a   Sarti, A ^b   Lamberti, C ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foreshortening; Left ventricle (LV); Long axis (LA); Optical flow; Real time 3 D echocardiography (RT3DE)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FLOWS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FORESHORTENING; LEFT VENTRICLE (LV); OPTICAL FLOW TECHNIQUES;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC VOLUME; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; OPTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 30744440614     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.855535     Document Type: Article

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