A level set framework with a shape and motion prior for segmentation and region tracking in echocardiography

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 162-177

  Dydenko, Igor ^a   Jamal, Fadi ^b   Bernard, Olivier ^a   D'hooge, Jan ^c   Magnin, Isabelle E ^a   Friboulet, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiac ultrasound; Echography; Heart; Level set; Motion prior; Registration; Segmentation; Shape prior; Tracking

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS; VECTORS;

CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; LEVEL SET; MOTION PRIOR; REGION TRACKING; SHAPE PRIOR;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROPROCESSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 31744434431     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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