Robust real-time myocardial border tracking for echocardiography: An information fusion approach

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 849-860

  Comaniciu, Dorin ^a   Zhou, Xiang Sean ^a   Krishnan, Sriram ^b  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Siemens Medical Solutions ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Active shape model; Heteroscedastic noise; Information fusion; Model adaptation; Motion estimation with uncertainty; Myocardial border tracking; Subspace constraint

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; INFORMATION FUSION; MODEL ADAPTATION; SUBSPACE CONSTRAINTS;

CARDIOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 3142723329     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.827967     Document Type: Article

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