Semiautomatic detection of left ventricular contours in contrast-enhanced echocardiographic images: Comparison with magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 876-882

  Morales, Maria Aurora ^a   Positano, Vincenzo ^a   Lombardi, Massimo ^a   Rodriguez, Olaf ^a   Passera, Mirko ^a   Rovai, Daniele ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIAC VOLUME; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 3342900259     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.04.026     Document Type: Article

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