Watershed-presegmented snake for boundary detection and tracking of left ventricle in echocardiographic images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 414-416

  Cheng, Jierong ^a   Foo, Say Wei ^a   Krishnan, Shankar M ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Echocardiographic images; Morphological operation; Snake

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARDIOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; ENDOCARDIAL BOUNDARY; LEFT VENTRICLE; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATION; WATERSHED-PRESEGMENTED SNAKE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33645705231     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.859887     Document Type: Article

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