Gray level models for segmenting myocaridum and blood in cardiac ultrasound images

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 265-268

  Tao, Zhong ^a,b   Beaty, James ^a,b   Joffe, C Carl ^a,b   Tagare, Hemant D ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

APPROPRIATE MODELS; CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; CLINICAL SETTINGS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SPECKLE STATISTICS; ULTRASOUND MACHINES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33645199415     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2002.1029244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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