Incorporating temporal information for ventricular contour detection in echocardiographic image sequences

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

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 1614-1617

  Fang, Wen ^a   Chan, Kap Luk ^a   Fu, Sheng ^a   Krishnan, Shankar Muthu ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); IMAGE SEQUENCES; VENTRICULAR BOUNDARY; VENTRICULAR CONTOURS;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 33846922780     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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