Fully automatic segmentation of left ventricular myocardium in real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Walimbe, Vivek ^a,b   Zagrodsky, Vladimir ^b   Shekhar, Raj ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Myocardium; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

EPICARDIAL WIREMESH; MESH-INTERACTION FORCES; MYOCARDIUM; SEGMENTATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745150426     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.654050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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