Active contours with automatic initialization for myocardial perfusion analysis

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 3332-3335

  Pluempitiwiriyawej, Charnchai ^a   Sotthivirat, Saowapak ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

MYOCARDIAL BOUNDARIES; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC ACTIVE CONTOUR SCHEME (STACS);

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 33846898059     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1617190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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